Re: 2.3.32-pre4/SMP still doesn't boot on Compaq Proliant 1600

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:53:47 -0800 (PST)

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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Question: will you object against switching /dev/loop over regular files
> to pagecache? Current variant uses bmap()+getblk() for IO and write() for
> plugging the holes if backing file is sparse - definitely Bad Thing(tm).

Sounds like a capital idea. Mind doing the block device pagecache first,
though, if you're already looking at this area?

Linus

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