>u are talking about application aware caching/prefetching stuff. but i >prefer to modifying kernel page cache a little bit while make use of >most of the code there.
That's a powerful argument for using the page cache, and further, for using it from within the kernel. I once started a project to port a particular filesystem driver from the kernel to user space. It was to be used in a Linux system whose sole purpose was to export one filesystem via NFS. I was looking for engineering ease. Everything about porting the driver to user space was almost trivial except for duplicating the page cache, and that was enough work to call into question the whole strategy (I never went far enough to actually make a decision). But I'm sure there are cases where the tradeoff works. -- Bryan Henderson San Jose California IBM Almaden Research Center Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
