Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fast /tmp (was Re: Mixing paging and IO is inefficient)
Message-ID: <119@array.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 90 06:31:44 GMT
References: <499@garth.UUCP> <5660@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> <137770@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <103@array.UUCP> <5784@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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>In article <103@array.UUCP> colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb) writes:
>>I think it's a wierd hybrid of a ramdisk and stable storage, and I
>>think it's ugly, but I can't say it's *wrong*.

In article <5784@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>It is an interesting point of view to see UNIX buffer cache mechanism
>a wierd bybrid of a ramdisk and stable storage.

Oops... damn, we expire news too fast around here.  I'd like to
apologise for getting Masataka Ohta's scheme mixed up with another one
I heard about that also worked, but was (in my opinion) less than
elegant.  For some reason, I made the wrong connection in my head, only
to have it blown when he reminded me of what he really did.

I apologise for the comment, and offer my admiration for having achieved
so much gain for so little additional complexity.
-- 
	-Colin