Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:42:09 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] /dev/anon |
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > Now I'm going to say something really stupid, but why sys_madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) > won't work for this? >
MADV_DONTNEED is fine for anonymous memory, but it can't make a filesystem throw out data, which is what I need. If it did, then people wouldn't be agitating for sys_punch.
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