Re: [PATCH 0/12] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility

From: Kyle Moffett (mrmacman_g4_at_mac.com)
Date: 11/16/05

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    Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:45:58 -0500
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

    On Nov 15, 2005, at 14:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Can you remind me again why it requires a blockdev rather than a
    > regular file?
    >
    > coz people are just going to go and use a loopback mount to get
    > their blockdev, which is a bit sad.

    FS-Cache != CacheFS, although the names are a bit confusing. FS-
    Cache is a generic cache frontend for filesystems, while CacheFS is a
    provider backend that uses a block define internally. You could
    _also_ use cache files. If you look at the [0/12] in the list, you
    can see a diagram explaining this all in detail.

    Cheers,
    Kyle Moffett 

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