Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:53:47 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600 |
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote: > > 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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