From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m6442SEe013458 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:02:28 -0700 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B4387DA25BA for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id O75QAt5Cj2EK0LMP for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:03:15 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: user defined cache Message-ID: <20080704040315.GD29319@disturbed> References: <1215139205.7187.33.camel@quadski> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1215139205.7187.33.camel@quadski> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Warwick Boote Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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