> Looking at that list, I got the feeling that you'd want to > push that PG-awareness down into the block-io layer as well, > then, so as to be able to optimise for (perhaps) conflicting > goals depending on what the app does; for the IO system to be > able to read the apps mind it needs to have some knowledge of > what the app is / needs / wants and I get the impression that > this awareness needs to go deeper than the FS only.
That's a fair point, it would need be a kernel patch really, although not necessarily a very big one, more a case of looking at FDs and if they're flagged in some way then get the PGfs to do the job instead of/as well as the normal code path. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly