Al Boldi wrote:
>
>> What you're talking about is, *and should be*, a different filesystem.
>> You will relatively quickly find that you have to deal with the same
>> kind of stuff that you have to in any filesystem.
>
> That's exactly what I want to avoid, as this would introduce a performance
> penalty.
>
> All we need is a periodically synced tmpfs to mmap, with a minimal stream
> into page-cache algo on mount.
>
... which would be completely useless, because you wouldn't get any sort
of coherency; you would have pointers pointing into space, etc. etc.
Sorry, it's useless.
-hpa
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