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75 that hard disk block a+1 will be read soon afterwards. Given that an application has requested a read of a single disk block, the OS can expect the application to read subsequent blocks later. If the OS will pursue a strategy of reading n blocks at a time, analyze how the OS can choose this n in order to minimize the expected read time.


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