need a snippet of code which would read out last "n lines" of a log file. I came up with the following code from the net.I am kinda new to C sharp. Since the log file might be quite large, I want to avoid overhead of reading the entire file.Can someone suggest any performance enhancement. I do not really want to read each character and change position.

   var reader = new StreamReader(filePath, Encoding.ASCII);
            reader.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
            var count = 0;
            while (count <= tailCount)
            {
                if (reader.BaseStream.Position <= 0) break;
                reader.BaseStream.Position--;
                int c = reader.Read();
                if (reader.BaseStream.Position <= 0) break;
                reader.BaseStream.Position--;
                if (c == '\n')
                {
                    ++count;
                }
            }

            var str = reader.ReadToEnd();