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i couldnt understand.."it depends"... depends on what??
there is no such circumstances... the question is simple...
for every process whether the kernel allocates new buffer pool for the data
knowing that the processes want to access the same data block....
or on other hand the processes use only a single copy of data to access


On 1/17/07, David Howells <dhowells redhat com> wrote:

gaurav <gaurav1207 gmail com> wrote:

> i wanted to know what exact mechanism takes place at file system level
when
> two or more processes try to access the same data from the same disk in
> linux 2.6.18 kernel ...
> My query is that for every incoming process new buffer is allocated for
the
> data or the same buffer is used again and again.

The answer is: it depends...  Can you clarify the circumstances you're
asking
about?  Is this involving FS-Cache?

David

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