Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:01:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Per-inode metadata cache. |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>Data and metadata are completely different. On, say, a large and busy >web or ftp server, you really don't care about a 1G metadata limit, but >a 1G page cache limit is much more painful.
Sure I completly agree. It looked you was talking about something magic related to bigmem that was not possible to do.
The rasonable thought about bigmem (that I just mentioned in my previous email of this thread) is that it doesn't worth to bloat the filesystem with kmap as the VM pressure generated by the metadata is rasonable small.
I never said the opposite. Just left the metadata to live in regular pages as now. I can't see any problem (you where the ones talking about bigmem troubles metadata related and I can't see them).
Andrea
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