Is there a way to give inode entries a higher cache priority than data in the linux kernel?

[lists at myratz.de (Andreas)]

Hi,

Carsten Koch wrote:
> However, my observation is that they are always spun up.
> So my questions are:

> 2) Is there a way to configure the kernel, so the inode entries
>    are locked in the cache or at least get a much higher
>    cache priority than ordinary data?
>

did you had a look to noflushd?

http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/


Cheers,
Andreas