Re: [PATCH] Use of getblk differs between locations

[Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > and/or make dirty data hdd based (not ram based)
>
> Ooh, swappable dirty data... nice idea :)

Multics had something like this :-) They had fast small drum and slow big 
disk --- so they wrote dirty file pages first to drum and then moved them 
to disk. Needless to say that it very too complex and they ripped it out 
of the system after years.

http://www.multicians.org/mgp.html#pagemultilevel

Mikulas

> > and/or restricting dirty buffers to 10MB for removable media.
>
> That seems like the simplest effective solution.
>
> -- Jamie
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