Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust [LWN.net]

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 9, 2021 16:24 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by warrax
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

And if you scattergun 10 requests at one hdd, the kernel tries to re-order them to minimise the overall time - it should spot if two are close together, and read them one after the other in the right order, etc etc.

Cheers,
Wol

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