forced pre-caching

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:27:50 -0500, Jing Su <gargamel.su-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Is there a way to force Linux to pre-cache certain files?  Not just
> executables, but also arbitrary data files.

Put a script into the "initialization stuff" that does...

for file in `cat /etc/precache-list-of-files`; do
   dd if=$file of=/dev/null bs=1M
done
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