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+Enhancement: Optimize read performance of mount command
+
+Reading large files in a mounted repository may be up to five times faster.
+This improvement primarily applies to repositories stored at a backend that can
+be accessed with low latency, like e.g. the local backend.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3426