Re: [RFC] [PATCH v5 0/3] fadvise: support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE

[John Stultz]

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 13:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:21:35 +0100
> Andrea Righi <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The new proposal is to implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE as a way to perform a real
> > drop-behind policy where applications can mark certain intervals of a file as
> > FADV_NOREUSE before accessing the data.
> 
> I think you and John need to talk to each other, please.  The amount of
> duplication here is extraordinary.

Yea. Clearly there is much we can share. I'm still catching up from a
conference last week, so I've not had a chance to really look at this
yet, but its on my queue for this week.

thanks
-john


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