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SubjectRe: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600


On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> Question: will you object against switching /dev/loop over regular files
> to pagecache? Current variant uses bmap()+getblk() for IO and write() for
> plugging the holes if backing file is sparse - definitely Bad Thing(tm).

Sounds like a capital idea. Mind doing the block device pagecache first,
though, if you're already looking at this area?

Linus


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