[Linux-cachefs] Re: Cachefs + FUSE (Was: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace)

[Miklos Szeredi]

> The plan is to have records containing:
> 
> 	uint64_t	start;
> 	uint64_t	end;
> 	uint32_t	ino;
> 	uint8_t		flags;		/* including pinning bit */
> 	uint8_t		netfs_data[11];
> 
> Multiple records can be applied to a data file. The file inode will acquire
> counts of applied writeback records and applied pins.

I see.

I might play around with fscache in FUSE, even without the pinning
feature, then when it's ready I'll see if this can be used to improve
performance of page writeback.

Thanks,
Miklos