[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Prefetching/buffering files

[Jan Knutar]

On Friday 02 September 2005 21:37, Anil Nambiar wrote:
> I 
> suppose the file system layer in linux works different as compared to network 
> layer when it comes to caching. 

I would trust the file system layer to pre-buffer or read-ahead data autonomously
for local storage, but I think it should do some read-ahead for network too. Of
course, if memory is tight, there might be no read-ahead at all in any circumstance.