> I've started on writing a pagebuf daemon (experimenting with ramfs).
> It will have the VM manage the allocating/freeing of pages. The
> filesystem should not have to know when a page needs to be freed or
> allocated. It just need pages. The pagebuf is supposed to age pages
> not the filesystem.
Last I looked it was try_to_free_pages() which does the aging
of pages. What functionality would a pagebuf daemon add in
this regard ?
Rik
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