> You, Matthew Dillon, were spotted writing this on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:57:33AM
>-0700:
> >
> > I don't particularly like to use MFS for 'large' partitions, mainly
> > because cached data blocks wind up in core memory twice (once in MFS's
> > memory map, and once in the VM page cache).
>
> You've said this several times in threads on MFS during recent months,
> and I've always wanted to ask: is that a necessary 'feature' of MFS's
> architecture, or something which could possibly be fixed without
> too much hard work? For instance, would it be possible to force
> VM not to cache MFS pages, etc.?
It's my understanding that VM caching of MFS is a feature, not a bug. See
/usr/share/doc/papers/memfs.ascii.gz .
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