Re: Buffering / caching of filesystem

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
1 Apr 1999 12:16:39 +0200

In article <cistron.0r0aDNm00Ui604iIs0@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Mathew G Monroe <mmex+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Weel I have something like that. I put together a very simple rawfs
>type about a month ago to do some testing on. It basically lets you
>mount a raw device as a file. Reads are cached, yet writes are flsuhed
>immediately to disk.
>
>If people find this interesting it can be found at
>ftp://box.res.cmu.edu/pub/rawfs-1.0.tgz

Ehm. I have had a rawfs for over a year now. It also lets you mount
one or more disk partitions as files.

I needed this so you can mmap() block devices, something the INN news
server wants when using cyclic storage.

See http://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/

I guess we now have to fight over the name now ..

Mike.

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