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> My conclusion based on my experience (YMMV) is that lazy fetching > s a very efficient strategy. Given the "high cost" of accessing > a file without a reason, the less prefetching the better. I would agree that this true for many situations. However, with virtualized environments like Amazon EC2 with extremely low latency and high bandwidth between nodes, I'm taking a guess that predictive pre-fetching might be feasible. Thoughts? P.S: Sorry if this gets sent out multiple times - there's something wrong with my email client. On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:18 AM, <u-codalist-9wcu_at_aetey.se> wrote: > My conclusion based on my experience (YMMV) is that lazy fetching > is a very efficient strategy. Given the "high cost" of accessing > a file without a reason, the less prefetching the better. >Received on 2012-11-25 12:30:08