Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 18:37:32 EST


On 22 Jan 2002, Shawn Starr wrote:

> The only functionality added to the kernel would be a a interface for
> filesystems to share it would basically create kpagebuf_* functions.

What would these things achieve ?

It would be nice if you could give us a quick explanation of
what exactly kpagebufd is supposed to do, if only so I can
keep that in mind while working on the VM ;)

Rik

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