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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:12:04 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Why does it need to know how suitable it is compared to the other
> subcaches?  It just ages X pages,

How the hell is the filesystem supposed to age pages ?

The filesystem DOES NOT KNOW how often pages are used,
so it cannot age the pages.

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Rik
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