On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>
> Hello all :)
>
> I want to write a program that lists the blocks currently in VFS buffer.
> I looked around and couldn't find anything similar, and, well, noone on IRC
> seems to know anything about it.
> So here goes :
> 1) does anybody know of such a program ?
nope.
> 2) I looked around in the kernel source and it looks to me that
> this stuff isn't visible outside of kernel.. So should I just go
> and change kernel directly or can I still get by with writing a
> module ? (or maybe even better , just an ordinary program ? )
I guess a good idea would be to write a /proc interface for this.
> 3) Another stupid question - if I have a file mmaped will it's blocks
> (if hit) appear in VFS buffer ? I.e. does it cache it twice ?
> Or does the buffer include all mmaped stuff (including
> executables ?)
>
> I would appreciate very much any pointers (and especially commentary) on the
> subject..
>
> Vladimir Dergachev
>
> http://www.math.upenn.edu/~vdergach
>
>
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Regards,
Dragos.
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