Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2001 15:18:08 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
once block_dev is in pagecache there will obviously be no-way to share cache between the block device and the filesystem, because all the caches will be in completly different address spaces.
Once we are at this point... will there be any use in having block devices? FreeBSD appears to have done without them completely about a year ago (an observation, not a comment on whether this is a good idea or not).
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