Re: mjf-devfs2 branch

["Matthew Mondor" <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

On Monday, 31 Mar 2008 9:41:14

> Block devices don't give you that now.  They access the
> _metadata_ cache -- it no longer holds file data, and the
> allocation scheme it uses now is utterly performance-destroying if
> you try to use a block device from userspace to get cached access
> to the underlying diskdrive.

Thanks for the explanation,  I had the misconception that disk blocks
accessed via block devices were always directly added in the buffer
cache.

-- 
Matthew Mondor