Re: extra PG_* bits for page->flags

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 23:18:05 EST


On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:12:44 PST, Andrew Morton said:

> Is a new fs needed? Is it not possible to use an existing filesystem of the
> user's choice for local caching?

It's sort of like a loopback mount - you need a backing store which could be
on an ext3 or ramfs or whatever, and you need the user-visible front end side
of things, which manages the backing store and fetches blocks from AFS/NFS/etc.



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