Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:25:04 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility |
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > What I'm trying to do is actually fairly simple in concept: > > (1) Have a metadata inode (imeta) that covers the block device. >
Can you remind me again why it requires a blockdev rather than a regular file?
coz people are just going to go and use a loopback mount to get their blockdev, which is a bit sad.
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