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Subject: Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.
From: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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The only functionality added to the kernel would be a a interface for
filesystems to share it would basically create kpagebuf_* functions.

Shawn.


On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 17:08, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2002, Shawn Starr wrote:
> 
> > the pagebuf daemon would use try_to_free_pages() periodically in its
> > queue.
> 
> So it wouldn't add any functionality to the kernel ?
> 
> Rik
> -- 
> "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS"
>     -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
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