Alexander Viro escribió:
>
> 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?
Suppose you are implementing a log-structured file system and a process
adds a new logical block to a file. Besides, suppose that the segment is
512 KBytes in size. Usually, you don't want to write the segment before
it is full. The logical block hasn't got a physical address because you
don't build the segment until it is written to disk. So, what happens if
another process wants to access to the new block?.
You can't assign a physical address to the new block because the address
can change when the buffer is written to disk.
Perhaps, I'm wrong, but I think that the implementation of the BSD-LFS
needs to address logically the buffer cache.
Bye!
P.D.: sorry for my bad English ;-)
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