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The 3.8 kernel is out

Posted Feb 20, 2013 14:37 UTC (Wed) by ssam (subscriber, #46587)
In reply to: The 3.8 kernel is out by Wol
Parent article: The 3.8 kernel is out

Some sort of read ahead could be fetching the first block while the program initializes.

Also you may just be reading the first few bytes to know what icon to draw in your file browser.

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