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[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "HB" == Henry G Baker <hbaker@netcom.com> writes:

HB> Multics had a 'memory-mapped' file system, in which 'segments'
HB> were mapped into memory at run-time.  IMHO, this is a 'good' idea.

There is a library developed at CMU for Unix and Mach called RVM
(Recoverable Virtual Memory).  A similiar idea to Multics segments, it
is used in CMU's Coda filesystem (successor of AFS).

The Mach version (e.g. MkLinux, Hurd) uses external pagers for
customizability and to avoid I/O delay for mapping regions.

ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/rvm-releases/