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Re: Page cache vs buffer cache

To: "sanjay kumar" <tousanjay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "kernelnewbies" <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Page cache vs buffer cache
From: Ketan Mukadam <kmukadam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:03:56 +0530
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This might be helpful

http://boudicca.tux.org/mhonarc/ma-linux/1999-mhonarc/1999-Dec/msg00218.html

Regards
Ketan

At 07:48 PM 8/2/2004, sanjay kumar wrote:


hi all
I have confusion regarding the usage of page cache and buffer cache.
AFAIK both are disk caches. Also buffer cache are part of
page cache. Then why do we require these two seperate caches.

TID
sanjayk


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