0 votes 0 votes If the operating system knew that a certain application was going to access file data in a sequential manner, how could it exploit this information to improve performance? Operating System operating-system galvin io-system descriptive + – ajaysoni1924 asked Mar 22, 2019 ajaysoni1924 1.4k views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes When a block is accessed, the file system could prefetch the subsequent blocks in anticipation of future requests to these blocks. This prefetching optimization would reduce the waiting time experienced by the process for future requests. Gurdeep Saini answered Mar 23, 2019 Gurdeep Saini comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply smsubham commented Mar 17, 2020 reply Follow Share Mention reference when you copy paste. http://webpages.ursinus.edu/adhawan/os/test3.txt 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.