>From ChangeLog:
- "Kevin P. Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Tue Dec 26 16:34:49 EST 2000
Added framework for write-cache buffering (for "persistent disks").
Created new plugin, in directory user/plugins/write-cache/. It
does nothing currently, other than pass disk accesses to libc.
This is to make it easier for others to implement the actual logic,
without having to know much about plex86 internals. There are some
notes in the plugin C code.
I also created a new button (really lame) on the GUI. This triggers
a call to the plugin, so the user can select when to flush (commit)
the writes in the write-cache to disk and clear the cache.
Eventually, a nice menu system might do this with a "Are you sure?"
dialog or something similar.
It is possible that a large number of disk writes may exceed the
size of the write-cache (which should be configured by an option
to the plugin eventually). In that case, it would be good to present
the user with 2 options: 1) Quit altogether and ignore writes,
and 2) commit writes and continue. This should eventually be
GUI oriented, by stdin would be OK for now.
I believe Tom Vijlbrief wanted to work on the write-cache. If this is correct
coordinate with Tom if you want to help in this area.
-Kevin
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Kevin Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MandrakeSoft, Inc. Plex86 developer
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ http://www.plex86.org/
