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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:52:53 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lfs@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <Miklos.Szeredi@eth.ericsson.se>
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Subject: Re: Introducing FUSE: Filesystem in USErspace
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Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>     - Thin layer in kernel. Minimal caching, predictable behavior.

Minimal caching?  I would hope for maximal caching, for when userspace
is able to say "yes the page you have is still valid".  Preferably
without a round trip to userspace for every page.

-- Jamie
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