Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750840AbVJNS0Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:26:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750838AbVJNS0Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:26:16 -0400 Received: from artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.125]:20140 "EHLO artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750840AbVJNS0O (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:26:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:26:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikulas Patocka To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Pavel Machek , Jeff Mahoney , Anton Altaparmakov , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, aia21@cantab.net, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use of getblk differs between locations In-Reply-To: <20051014165223.GA23420@mail.shareable.org> Message-ID: References: <20051010214605.GA11427@br.ibm.com> <1129017155.12336.4.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> <434D6932.1040703@suse.com> <434D6CFA.4080802@suse.com> <20051013111707.GB516@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20051014165223.GA23420@mail.shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 30 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >> and/or make dirty data hdd based (not ram based) > > Ooh, swappable dirty data... nice idea :) Multics had something like this :-) They had fast small drum and slow big disk --- so they wrote dirty file pages first to drum and then moved them to disk. Needless to say that it very too complex and they ripped it out of the system after years. http://www.multicians.org/mgp.html#pagemultilevel Mikulas >> and/or restricting dirty buffers to 10MB for removable media. > > That seems like the simplest effective solution. > > -- Jamie > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/