Re: Addressing logically the buffer cache

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 14:46:37 EST


On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Juan wrote:

> Hi!.
>
> Is there any patch or project to address logically the buffer cache?.
> Now, you use three parameters to find a buffer in cache: device, block
> number, and block size. But, what about if I want to find a buffer using
> a super block, an inode number, and a block number within the file
> specified by the inode number.

What's wrong with using the pagecache and per-page buffer_heads?

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