Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:46:40 -0700 | From | "Jared Hulbert" <> | Subject | Re: vm/fs meetup in september? |
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On 7/2/07, Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2 July 2007 10:44:00 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > > > >So what you mean is "swap on flash" ? Defintively sounds like an > > >interesting topic, although I'm not too sure it's all that > > >filesystem-related. > > > > Maybe not. Yet, it would be a very useful place to store data from a > > file as a non-volatile page cache. > > > > Also it is something that I believe would benefit from a VFS-like API. > > I mean there is a consistent interface a management layer like this > > could use, yet the algorithms used to order the data and the interface > > to the physical media may vary. There is no single right way to do > > the management layer, much like filesystems. > > > > Given the page orientation of the current VFS seems to me like there > > might be a nice way to use it for this purpose. > > > > Or maybe the real experts on this stuff can tell me how wrong that is > > and where it should go :) > > I don't believe anyone has implemented this before, so any experts would > be self-appointed. > > Maybe this should be turned into a filesystem subject after all. The > complexity comes from combining XIP with writes on the same chip. So > solving your problem should be identical to solving the rw XIP > filesystem problem. > > If there is interest in the latter, I'd offer my self-appointed > expertise.
Right, the solution to swap problem is identical to the rw XIP filesystem problem. Jörn, that's why you're the self-appointed subject matter expert! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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