Just looking for a pointer or a brief history that might make clearer to me what is not currently obvious, having exhaustively scanned through this list and kernel source. For filesystems such as ext2/3/4, getdents() just calls down to the underlying filesystem which in turns calls into the disk pagecache. Why is getdents() not instead serviced via dcache? +Reardon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
