Re: Using page cache without a file system

2001-06-22 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 22 June 2001 05:33, Ho Chak Hung wrote: > Is it possible to allocate and add pages to the page cache without a > underlying file system in Linux 2.4? I know that the host pointer to inode > structure inside the address_space structure can be NULL, but does this > mean that we can still m

Using page cache without a file system

2001-06-21 Thread Ho Chak Hung
Hi, Is it possible to allocate and add pages to the page cache without a underlying file system in Linux 2.4? I know that the host pointer to inode structure inside the address_space structure can be NULL, but does this mean that we can still make use of page cache operations like readpage or