On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Peter Graf wrote:

> The mechanism itself is indeed independent, but each device driver can
> decide wether to use it or not.

Could a device driver be made aware of the amount of RAM, and selectively
use the slave blocks for small files, but not for files that exceed an
arbitrary threshold, like 25% of RAM? If a user could set a variable for
the percentage, it would make for great convenience and configurability...

Dave
ql.spodmail.com


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