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Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:29:40 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Or you can rewrite block_read/write to use the page cache, in which case
> you'd have more luck doing the above.

once block_dev is in pagecache there will obviously be no-way to share
cache between the block device and the filesystem, because all the
caches will be in completly different address spaces.

Andrea