Re: journaling & VM (was: Re: reiserfs being part of the kernel: it'snot just the code)

From: Hans Reiser (hans@reiser.to)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 15:16:04 EST


"Quintela Carreira Juan J." wrote:

>
> If you need pages in the LRU cache only for getting notifications,
> then change the system to send notifications each time that we are
> short of memory.

I think the right thing is for the filesystems to use the LRU code as templates
from which they may vary or not from in implementing their subcaches with their
own lists. I say this for intuitive not concrete reasons. In other words, I
agree with Juan.

Hans

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