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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 03:04:05 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:38:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It would definitely make all the issues with Andrea's pagecache code just
> go away completely.

I also recommend to write it on top of the blkdev in pagecache patch
since there I just implemented the "physical address space" abstraction,
I had to write it to make the mknod hda and mknod hda.new to share the
same cache transparently.

Andrea