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Re: turning off readahead

isn't this an option to the hdparm utility?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zou Min" <zoum@comp.nus.edu.sg>
To: "Kernelnewbie ML" <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:15 PM
Subject: turning off readahead


> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering is there any fast way to disable the readahead
> (i.e. prefetching) pages/blocks from disk in 2.4.x kernel?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> regards,
> 
> ZM 
> 
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