Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: threaded FS-drivers | Date | 5 Feb 1998 02:20:18 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980204133218.14362F-100000@sigil.computersupportcentre.com> By author: teunis <teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > Actually - I was thinking of actual asynchronous FS-management... > > > Where, say, a kernel thread was being used to manage the device rather > > > than the local process... (as it is currently :) > > > > Reinvention of the microkernel? > > Nah - but linux could do that afaik... who knows whether it would be > worth it outside of, say, a hyper-database-system with dedicated drivers > on an SMP system... but it should be doable :) >
Note, Linux *does* do this for certain things. I believe both NFS and the md driver do just this.
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