> The plan is to have records containing: > > uint64_t start; > uint64_t end; > uint32_t ino; > uint8_t flags; /* including pinning bit */ > uint8_t netfs_data[11]; > > Multiple records can be applied to a data file. The file inode will acquire > counts of applied writeback records and applied pins. I see. I might play around with fscache in FUSE, even without the pinning feature, then when it's ready I'll see if this can be used to improve performance of page writeback. Thanks, Miklos