unfortunately these are not the topic to digest in a mail, I recommend you reading UTLK book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596005658.do). Still...
will it be maped with vm_area struct ? Yes if it is accessed via mmap system call.
what is the relation between page-cache and file operation? file operations for data access like read/write will look into page-cache first before going to disk.
-Rajat On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:01 PM, horseriver <horserivers@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:48:01PM +0530, Rajat Sharma wrote:
Never heard of page-cache?
will it be maped with vm_area struct ? what is the relation between page-cache and file operation?
thanks!
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:29 PM, horseriver <horserivers@gmail.com>
wrote:
hi:
when one file is opened , does its data be put into memory ? and all operation on this file
will be implemented by operation on its mapping memory area ?
thanks!
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