Re: Linux page cache doubt

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:36:41PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > Hi Arun, well filesystem I/O is divided into two chunks - file data
> > which is definitely page cache based, and metadata which is done through
> > various means depending on:
> > 
> >     o which kernel you are running
> >     o which filesystem
> > 
> > All filesystems that I am aware of except for XFS use buffer heads and the
> > block cache for metadata I/O.
> 
> JFS uses the pagecache for all I/O - for metadata they have an additional
> 'metapage' abstraction.

Ah ha, Steve Best and co were asking about pagebuf a year or so back. I should
take a look sometime.

Steve

> 
>       Christoph
> 
> -- 
> Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.