On Wed, 3 May 2006, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> > - it gives you only a very limited view into what is actually going on.
>
> ??? In what way? I don't think we need a *complex* view of what
> is going on.
The block-based view is a very simple one, but it's _too_ simple. It
doesn't actually tell the user what is happening. It doesn't tell you why
the request happened in the first place, so it leaves you no way to really
do anything sane about it.
You can't prefetch (because the indexing is wrong), and you can't actually
even analyze it (because you don't know any background to what you're
seeing). In short, you can't _do_ anything with it.
Linus
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