Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:12:44 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: extra PG_* bits for page->flags |
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Hi Linus, > > I'm writing a cache filesystem for primarily for caching AFS pages, but that > also can be used for caching other network FS pages (such as NFSv4, which Jeff > Garzik and Trond Myklebust are interested in, I think).
Is a new fs needed? Is it not possible to use an existing filesystem of the user's choice for local caching?
> ... > > (*) PG_journal > (*) PG_journalmark
Well. If you new fs goes in then yes, we can spare those bits (just). If possible, consider making them "opaque address_space-private", so this prime real estate can be shared with other filesystems (eg, PG_checked).
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