Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.

Rik van Riel
2002-01-21T00:54:01Z

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Not if you provide a proper design of a master cache manager.
> Really, all you have to do is have the subcache managers designed to
> free the same number of pages on average in response to pressure, and
> to pressure them in proportion to their size, and it is pretty simple
> for VM.

I take it you're volunteering to bring ext3, XFS, JFS,
JFFS2, NFS, the inode & dentry cache and smbfs into
shape so reiserfs won't get unbalanced ?

regards,

Rik
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