>>On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:27:06PM -0500, J Leslie Turriff wrote: >>Okay, now, wait; are you saying that the storage device _does_ have a >>mechanism for communicating with the Linux filesystem to determine what >>filesystem pages are still cached in main storage and have not yet been >>commited to external storage?
>It doesn't. It's also not as easy as having a list of pages that need >commiting. What we would need is a way for the storage device (or >rather the software controlling it) to call the existing Linux lockfs >functionality. A way for the storage device to call the lockfs via an API was what I was thinking of. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
