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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:31:10 -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 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 ?

Rik
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