Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 17:26:23 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Getting FS access events |
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:06:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
But no, I doubt we'll move _all_ metadata into the page-cache. I doubt, for example, that we'll find people re-doing all the other filesystems. So even if ext2 was page-cache only, what about all the 35 other filesystems out there in the standard sources, never mind others that haven't been integrated (XFS, ext3 etc..).
Hmm... what about dropping block device per se' and creating a pseudo-fs (say /dev/blk/) that gives a page-cache view of the underlying raw devices?
That way older filesystems and tools could use that view of things until they are moved into the page-cache, and those people without the dependence of those filesystems can complete forgo all of this?
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