readahead

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The operation of reading data from a storage medium in advance so that it is immediately available when requested

(Bilgisayar) The file prefetching technology used in the Linux operating system. It is a system call that loads a file's contents into the page cache. When a file is subsequently accessed, its contents are read from physical memory rather than from disk, which is much faster

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