Re: [PATCH] ext2fs and large stores (> 1.5G)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 05:01:32PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> Leaving the housekeeping (flushing etc) to microkernel is natural way in 
> Hurd environment, but as I said in another mail, I need a reliable way 
> to be notified when the microkernel evicts page so that it can be reused.

I am not really following, but not that there are (to Mach) two types of
pages, precious and non-precious.

Precious pages are never dropped silently, but always returned to the pager.
If I am not mistaken, using precious pages allows you to track where the
page is right now.

Thanks,
Marcus

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