Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:31:10 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. |
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On 22 Jan 2002, Shawn Starr wrote:
> I've started on writing a pagebuf daemon (experimenting with ramfs). > It will have the VM manage the allocating/freeing of pages. The > filesystem should not have to know when a page needs to be freed or > allocated. It just need pages. The pagebuf is supposed to age pages > not the filesystem.
Last I looked it was try_to_free_pages() which does the aging of pages. What functionality would a pagebuf daemon add in this regard ?
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