On Tue 2014-02-25 09:18:16, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> One of the primary uses for NV-DIMMs is to expose them as a block device
> and use a filesystem to store files on the NV-DIMM. While that works,
> it currently wastes memory and CPU time buffering the files in the page
> cache. We have support i
On 02/27/2014 05:29 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Some distributions use udisks2 to grant permission to local console
users to create new loop devices from files. File systems on these
block devices are then mounted. This is a replacement for several
file systems implemented in user space, and for
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 03:01:03PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 03:18 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >One of the primary uses for NV-DIMMs is to expose them as a block device
> >and use a filesystem to store files on the NV-DIMM. While that works,
> >it currently wastes memory and CPU
On 02/25/2014 03:18 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
One of the primary uses for NV-DIMMs is to expose them as a block device
and use a filesystem to store files on the NV-DIMM. While that works,
it currently wastes memory and CPU time buffering the files in the page
cache. We have support in ext2 for
One of the primary uses for NV-DIMMs is to expose them as a block device
and use a filesystem to store files on the NV-DIMM. While that works,
it currently wastes memory and CPU time buffering the files in the page
cache. We have support in ext2 for bypassing the page cache, but it
has some races
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