Yet more "preloading"

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lubos Lunak wrote:

> > A kernel module will dump information about which blocks of which
> > files are currently loaded in the page cache.
> 
>  Does it do also the same (well, similar and better) thing like the scan
> hack in the first message of this thread? I.e. inodes or whatever it is
> the filesystem scanning caches?

I don't know, I haven't looked at the source ;-)  Theoretically it could 
because also the pages containing inodes should be in the pagecache 
(probably for the file representing the device, not sure).

> I see something in the source and in the fboot-prep output that could be
> it, so I'd say yes, but most of the source doesn't make much sense to
> me, so I'd prefer to know for sure. I'd be happy to declare this scan
> hack obsolete as well.
> 
>  BTW, fboot-prep can't handle files with spaces in names, it needs
> something like the attached patch.

Does it work otherwise?  Only with 2.4 kernel or also with 2.6?


Ciao,
Michael.