Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:51:52 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Disk priorities... |
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > And if you mean reads... Good luck propagating the originator > > information. > > Isn't it the case that for most of the filesystem > reads the current process is the one that is the > originator of the request ?
Not true for metadata (consider the access to indirect blocks done by pageout, for one thing). Besides, even for data it's wide open to abuse - it doesn't take much to trick another process into populating the caches for you.
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