Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V file systems
Message-ID: <407@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 21:19:14 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >> How hard is it for an instantiation of UNIX to support multiple
 >> kinds of blocksizes? ...,

 >the difficulty that i see is in the maintenance of the
 >buffer cache.  do you have separate buffer caches for
 >each size or somehow share them.

Share them.  See 4.[23]BSD.