/READAHEAD (Default) /NOREADAHEAD When a disk read is required to fill a cache block, /READAHEAD specifies that the read is to be from the first block requested to the end of the bucket boundary. Readahead can speed up sequential operations by pre-loading disk blocks that are needed into the cache. If you specify both /READAHEAD and /READBEHIND, any block requested within a cache bucket causes the entire bucket range of blocks to be read into the cache.