Re: Buffer and page cache

1999-11-02 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 08:15:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd like these pages to age a little before handing them over to the "inode disk", because the "write_one_page" function called by generic_file_write would incur significant latency if the inode disk is "real", ie. not

Buffer and page cache

1999-11-02 Thread braam
Hi, I'm working on a file system which talks to an "inode disk", the storage industry calls these object based disks. A simulated object based disk can be constructed from the lower half of ext2 (or any other file system for that matter). The file system has no knowledge of disk blocks, and