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List:       gfs-devel
Subject:    [gfs-devel] Re: (buddy system) wasRe: another laundry or shopping list
From:       David Brower <David.Brower () oracle ! com>
Date:       2001-07-18 0:08:52
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 irbis@orcero.org wrote:
> 
> > distributed copies of a memory page. VM subsystem will become really
> > complex, and I can not see how to implement it, it looks as dificult
> > as a distributed FS.
> 
> That you cannot see how to do it doesn't mean
> that the GFS people haven't already implemented
> shared writeable mmap() support ;)

Well, they haven't, but they're working on it.  Just don't
expect it to be fast.  Whether that is going to break things
is going to be an interesting part of the exercise.

-dB
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