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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:34:26PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> That would require a new inode and address_space for the fsblock
> type blockdev pagecache, wouldn't it?

Yes.  That's easily possible, XFS already does it for it's own
buffer cache.