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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Sascha Nitsch <Sash_lkl@linuxhowtos.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem
Date: 09 Jun 2006 08:33:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73wtbqsuqz.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606082233.13720.Sash_lkl@linuxhowtos.org>

Sascha Nitsch <Sash_lkl@linuxhowtos.org> writes:
> - all files overlayed are still accessible
> - after the first read, the file stays in memory (like a file cache)

Linux has very aggressive file caching and does this effectively
by default for every file system.

Sounds like you're trying to reinvent the wheel. 

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Sash_lkl@linuxhowtos.org>
2006-06-08 20:33 ` Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem Sascha Nitsch
2006-06-08 20:43   ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-06-08 21:12     ` Sash
2006-06-09 10:45       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-08 21:51   ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-08 22:39     ` Joshua Hudson
2006-06-08 22:48   ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-08 23:40     ` Måns Rullgård
2006-06-09  1:01       ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09  8:52         ` Måns Rullgård
2006-06-09  2:17     ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09  4:59       ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 13:43         ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09 15:07           ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 18:43             ` Lee Revell
2006-06-09 19:27               ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 19:31                 ` Lee Revell
2006-06-09 19:43                   ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 20:03                     ` Lee Revell
2006-06-09 21:23                       ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-06-09 23:37             ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09  6:33   ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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