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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 21:37:32 -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:

> The only functionality added to the kernel would be a a interface for
> filesystems to share it would basically create kpagebuf_* functions.

What would these things achieve ?

It would be nice if you could give us a quick explanation of
what exactly kpagebufd is supposed to do, if only so I can
keep that in mind while working on the VM ;)

Rik
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