On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:43:42PM +0200, Ingo van Lil wrote:
> I gave all this a little more thought: The ideal solution would be to
> somehow share the host's page cache for that file. That way concurrent
> read and write accesses on both sides would be automatically
> synchronized, just as when multiple regular processes access the same
> file. I guess that's not easily possible, is it?
It is possible. mappng pages from the host into the UML page cache
will do that. Adding mmap support to UML is possible, just there
hasn't been a lot of demand for it.
Jeff
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