Re: threaded FS-drivers

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Mon, 2 Feb 1998 10:10:20 -0800 (PST)


If I remember correctly this was part of the origional linux versus minux
thread from comp.os.minix where Linus flamed Andy Tannenbaum nine ways
from tuesday... ;)

I think it's preserved at:

http://www.kde.org/food/linux_is_obsolete.html

joelja

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Martin von Loewis wrote:

> > Is there any point to using threaded FS drivers? or threaded physical
> > hardware drivers?
>
> The Linux file system drivers have been threaded for ages. Multiple
> processes can access different files in an overlapping fashion; while
> one process is waiting for a request to complete, the file system might
> already look into the request of another process.
>
> There are a few places where concurrent access is not desirable, Linux
> supports locks on the inode level and on the superblock level for
> these cases.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Martin
>

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