Re: What are the VM motivations??

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 11:34:54 EST


On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Colonel wrote:

> It's simple. I want the old reliable behavior back, the one I found
> in kernels from 1.1.41 thru 2.2.14.

And which one would that be ? Note that there have been
4 different VM subsystems in that time and the kernel has
made the transition from the buffer cache to the page cache
in that period.

Please make up your mind before making feature requests ;)

regards,

Rik

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