Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. | From | Shawn Starr <> | Date | 22 Jan 2002 16:28:24 -0500 |
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I've started on writing a pagebuf daemon (experimenting with ramfs). It will have the VM manage the allocating/freeing of pages. The filesystem should not have to know when a page needs to be freed or allocated. It just need pages. The pagebuf is supposed to age pages not the filesystem.
Shawn.
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 16:12, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > Why does it need to know how suitable it is compared to the other > > subcaches? It just ages X pages, > > How the hell is the filesystem supposed to age pages ? > > The filesystem DOES NOT KNOW how often pages are used, > so it cannot age the pages. > > End of thread. > > Rik > -- > "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" > -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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