From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: Implementing writepage Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:28:19 +0000 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031026152819.GC5172@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20031025092152.D638B6D5B@blood.actrix.co.nz> <1067098698.3266.19.camel@lapdancer.baythorne.internal> <20031025223413.F0E6C11964@blood.actrix.co.nz> <1067163948.888.21.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: manningc2@actrix.gen.nz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:37099 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263201AbTJZP2U (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:28:20 -0500 To: David Woodhouse Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1067163948.888.21.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:25:49AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > Your file system is not broken; your application author is. Mend that > instead. :) I don't see why every application should be rewritten for the needs of the current generation of flash. If this is such a problem for flash, then maybe the filesystem should implement its own caching strategy for these pages. (Again, expecting the page cache to understand about flash's special requirements is unreasonable.) Your argument makes sense for the embedded market, but not for mainstream. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk