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SubjectRe: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:

> >If your ->writepage() writes pages to disk it just means
> >that reiserfs will be able to clean its pages faster than
> >the other filesystems.
>
> the logical extreme of this is that no write caching should be done at
> all, only read caching?

You know that's bad for write clustering ;)))

> >This means the VM will not call reiserfs ->writepage() as
> >often as for the other filesystems, since more of the
> >pages it finds will already be clean and freeable.
> >
> >I guess the only way to unbalance the caches is by actually
> >freeing pages in ->writepage, but I don't see any real reason
> >why you'd want to do that...
>
> It would unbalance the write cache, not the read cache.

Many workloads tend to read pages again after they've written
them, so throwing away pages immediately doesn't seem like a
good idea.

regards,

Rik
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