Re: Linux Buffer Cache Does Not Support Mirroring

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:35:22 +0000 (GMT)


> separate (Hotfix and mirrroing ARE independent of NWFS even in Netware),
> however, there are fault tolerant dependencies that allow NWFS to handle
> some very complex data failure and recovery conditions not available
> with most other FS's. It is possible to implement without it, but then

But can those be taught to another FS ?

> drivers and the buffer cache. There's no obvious method of supporting
> async callbacks (which will increase file system performance by several
> hundred percent).

This is callbacks on an I/O completion ? So you can execute some piece of fs
code in driver context ?

Alan

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