Re: threaded FS-drivers

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Feb 1998 02:20:18 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980204133218.14362F-100000@sigil.computersupportcentre.com>
By author: teunis <teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > > Actually - I was thinking of actual asynchronous FS-management...
> > > Where, say, a kernel thread was being used to manage the device rather
> > > than the local process... (as it is currently :)
> >
> > Reinvention of the microkernel?
>
> Nah - but linux could do that afaik... who knows whether it would be
> worth it outside of, say, a hyper-database-system with dedicated drivers
> on an SMP system... but it should be doable :)
>

Note, Linux *does* do this for certain things. I believe both NFS and
the md driver do just this.

-hpa

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