From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Warwick Boote <wboote@civica.com.au>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: user defined cache
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:03:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080704040315.GD29319@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215139205.7187.33.camel@quadski>
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:40:05PM +1000, Warwick Boote wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do you know of setting or layered file system that enables me to define
> a large buffer in main memory and cache writes to this buffer?
I know there's wrapper libraries that do this - like FFIO -
but I don't think there's a free one.
However, why doesn't the page cache do what you want already?
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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2008-07-04 2:40 user defined cache Warwick Boote
2008-07-04 3:51 ` Mark
2008-07-04 4:03 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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