Effect of POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL and POSIX_FADV_RANDOM on IO performance.
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Previously we looked at how the POSIX_FADVISE_DONTNEED hint influences the Linux page cache when doing IO via a filesystem. Here we take a look at two more filesystem hints POSIX_FADV_RANDOM and POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL