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    SubjectRe: Drastic Slowdown of 'fseek()' Calls From 2.4 to 2.6 -- VMM Change?
    Nick Piggin wrote:

    > Hans Reiser wrote:
    >
    >> Sounds like the real problem is that glibc is doing filesystem
    >> optimizations without making them conditional on the filesystem type.
    >
    >
    > I'm not sure that it should even be conditional on the filesystem type...
    > To me it seems silly to even bother doing it, although I guess there
    > is another level of buffering involved which might mean it makes more
    > sense.
    >
    I was not saying that filesystem optimizations should be done in glibc
    rather than in the kernel, I was merely forgoing judgement on that
    point. Actually, I rather doubt that they should be in glibc, but
    maybe someday someone will come up with some legit example of where it
    belongs in glibc. I cannot think of one myself though.
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