A Linux kernel without struct buffer_head
Can someone Explain Like I’m Five why someone would design a filesystem to be deeply entangled with a specific struct in memory in a specific kernel design?<p>I’m referring to where the article says ext4 “still makes heavy use of buffer heads,” implies this has been the case since ext2 and says “the buffer cache was deeply wired into both the block subsystem and the filesystem implementations.”<p>Naively I would think the job of the filesystem is to handle reads and writes to disk and that a well designed one would leave caching to other parts of the OS.