On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:55:24PM +0300, BenHanokh Gabriel wrote:
> how do i map from filesystem blocks into memory pages in the new kernel
> ?
> is there a mechanism like the bh = bread( dev, block, size ) in kernel
> 2.2 ?
bread() will still work but if you're reading file data you should use the
page cache to keep things consistent. You probably want
mm/filemap.c:read_cache_page, for an example of its use look at
fs/namei.c:page_getlink.
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