Jeff
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> > Please advise on these cache issues.
>
> Basically, the buffercache is going to be reduced hardly more
> than an I/O mapping layer (with probably some extras for
> transactions and RAID). Caching will have to be done in the
> page cache.
>
> But that's something for kernel version 2.5 (when we'll probably
> overhaul most of the cache stuff).
>
> In the meantime, it would probably be best to use either your
> own buffer.c or accept the fact that it's not going to be as
> efficient as you'd like it to be.
>
> regards,
>
> Rik
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