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From: shekita@provolone.cs.wisc.edu (E Shekita)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fast /tmp
Summary: could someone briefly describe Ohta's scheme?
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Date: 9 Jul 90 02:32:47 GMT
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|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...

Anyone care to enlighten us about Ohta's scheme (without just
pointing to a ref)? I've seen it mentioned in this thread a number of 
times now without any description and I'm curious how it works. I'm 
sure there are others in the same boat as me.

Gene