Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:35:36 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux Buffer Cache Does Not Support Mirroring |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote:
>I can understand that (1) perhaps allows to implement some features not >possible with the layering used in Linux, at the price of increasing FS >complexity probably.
Agreed. This because at the blockdevice layer you lost all the semantics of the data and so at the ll_rw_block layer you can't implement any clever algorithm in order to relocate the data on optimal physical locations.
Andrea
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