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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [RFC PATCH] First RFC version of a new
 cache=mmap model.
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 04:57:22 -0500
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On 09/03/2013 09:37:58 AM, Dominique Martinet wrote:
>  - Add cache=mmap option
>  - Try to keep most operations synchronous
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr>
> ---
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I brought up the issue of mmap being read-only with cache=none a bit
> ago, and worked on it since.
> 
> Here's what this patch does:
>  - Add an option cache=mmap (or just mmap, like other caches), nothing
> changes for default or other caches.

Interesting.

Should this become the default behavior instead of "none" for  
non-readonly mounts? (What's the point of the "none" mode now that we  
have writeable mmap implemented, is there any advantage?)

Rob