Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:27:05 +0100 (BST) | Subject | RE: bdflush & page cache |
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Hi,
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:48:18 -0600, "Peter J. Braam" <braam@cs.cmu.edu> said:
> After I sent my message last night, I did realize that this should probably > be done through a new inode method, since many file systems will elect NOT > to have their pages flushed by the daemon.
All filesystems need to be able to respond to pressure from the VM to free more memory. This has to be non-negotiable.
--Stephen
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