linux-kernel - Re: userspace pagecache management tool

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Date:	Sat, 3 Mar 2007 21:35:59 -0500
From:	"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: userspace pagecache management tool

On 3/3/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> But yes, updatedb's pagecache usage will be mainly metadata, and this tool
> doesn't address metadata pagecache, although it could do so.
>

With no kernel changes?  How?  I can't find an equivalent API to
posix_fadvise() for metadata.

Lee
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