Exploring the Practicality of Prefetching Sequential Disk Accesses
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Prefetching and buffering sequential reads offers the possibility of improving disk performance both in terms of throughput, by reading multiple requests in a single larger read, and in terms of access time, where prefetched requests could be serviced immediately from disk cache. This study shows that there is considerable opportunity for such prefetching, and that most of the potential benefits of such a strategy can be realized by examining a relatively small amount of data.
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