Hi,
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:29:09AM +0200, Ulrich Kunitz wrote:
>
> There are two options:
>
> (1) queuing pages in an upper layer
> (2) introduce a dirty page list for an inode
When I did this originally, I did:
(3) introduce a dirty buffer list for each inode
The existing commit_write code writes through to the buffer cache,
creating dirty buffers which alias the data and mark then for
write-behind to disk. It's not hard to place those on a per-inode
list as you go.
--Stephen
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