Comment 2 for bug 899931

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Alexey Kopytov (akopytov) wrote : Re: [Bug 899931] [NEW] tar4ibd reads files inefficiently

On 05.12.11 3:57, Stewart Smith wrote:
> maybe posix_fadvise(WILLNEED) ?
>

I think the main problem here is not even caching, but rather 17
syscalls per page in the worst case, with the worst case being an
uncompressed tablespace.