US Patent 7360015 Preventing storage of streaming accesses in a cache

In one embodiment of the present invention, a method may include determining whether requested information is part of a streaming access, and directly writing the requested information from a storage device to a memory if the requested information is part of the streaming access. Alternately, if the requested information is not part of the streaming access, it may be written from the storage device to a cache. In various embodiments, the cache may be a non-volatile disk cache.