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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:56:44PM -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> >
> > It's actually better if you interleave the files somewhat so
> > that the buffer can be emptied before reading the next part
> > of the file, but the last people to do that were IBM in the 70s
> > AFAIK.
> 
>  Well, it was still being done in the '80s from my experience.

Interesting!  Could you dig up a reference?  I've always thought it
extremely short sighted for that optimization to have been dropped
and always planned for it in file systems I wrote.

-Phil/CERisE