[Linux-cachefs] (no subject)

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Tue Jan 16 20:01:11 UTC 2007


gaurav <gaurav1207 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i wanted to know what exact mechanism takes place at file system level when
> two or more processes try to access the same data from the same disk in
> linux 2.6.18 kernel ...
> My query is that for every incoming process new buffer is allocated for the
> data or the same buffer is used again and again.

The answer is: it depends...  Can you clarify the circumstances you're asking
about?  Is this involving FS-Cache?

David




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