Subject: Re: Do some disk accesses miss the UVM?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/24/2002 20:57:09
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:48:58PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> > Seems to me that file system 'metadata' - which seems to include
> > directory contents - should use the UBC.
>
> I agree, but Chuq has not yet done anything on this front.
FWIW...
Since no VM operations are defined for metadata, there isn't exactly
a pressing need for it, and putting metadata into the page cache is
somewhat complicated.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>