You mean like maybe, a "cache file system"?   Hmmm.

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:59:31AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> >
> > I know this is also going to seem silly to some people, but I welcome
> > constructive criticism; i.e. if this does NOT seem like a win for some
> > reason (I happen to have the extra 160MB to spare for this, so it
> > seems like a good idea at the time...), fill me in.
>
> I think it would be cool to have a utility that allows you to hardwire an
> executable into the buffer cache.  e.g. "ubcfreeze /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/*"
> Or maybe "ubcfreeze /usr/pkg/bin/mozilla" :-)
>
> So basically you could load the executable into cache, and never free that
> cache.  So shells, sshd, apache, browsers, perl, compiler, whatever could
> be frozen in the cache.
>
> I don't mean a "don't page this program out" flag, but a "don't remove this
> from the buffer cache" flag instead.
>
> This seems like it could be cleaner than a mfs setup, but it might be
> impossible to implement.  :-)
>
> -Andrew
>

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