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SubjectRe: Linux Buffer Cache Does Not Support Mirroring
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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> writes:

Jeff> Stephen,

Jeff> This is only supported on the newer kernels. Older Linux
Jeff> (2.0.38) does not support a general purpose interface, or
Jeff> support the callback. This means that we will need to support
Jeff> multiple methods of doing this I/O to cover all Linux versions.
Jeff> It appears we will be synchronous on 2.0.38 and older Linux.
Jeff> This is assuming I can find a way to get around the fact that
Jeff> all of the functions needing to be called are not declared
Jeff> "static" as they are today.

Excuse me, but this is like complaining about Solaris 2.3 and Solaris
2.6 being different internally. Linux 2.0.x is almost 3 years old.

Jes

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