Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility

[Kyle Moffett]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 14:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Can you remind me again why it requires a blockdev rather than a  
> regular file?
>
> coz people are just going to go and use a loopback mount to get  
> their blockdev, which is a bit sad.

FS-Cache != CacheFS, although the names are a bit confusing.  FS- 
Cache is a generic cache frontend for filesystems, while CacheFS is a  
provider backend that uses a block define internally.  You could  
_also_ use cache files.  If you look at the [0/12] in the list, you  
can see a diagram explaining this all in detail.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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