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Re: xfs buffer cache

To: "Ying Chen" <yingchenb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs buffer cache
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:52:13 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Message from "Ying Chen" <yingchenb@hotmail.com> of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:42:45 PST." <F116ddAkOhw2RlC6aVE0000755e@hotmail.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> 
> On the linux port, does xfs have its own buffer cache, instead of the 
> generic Linux VM/buffer cache that ext2 and many other file systems use?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ying
> 
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It depends, file data is handled fairly closely to the ext2 case,
but metadata is a totally distinct cache. Metadata is actually cached
in pages just like filedata, we do not use buffer_heads at all for
metadata though.

Steve



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