[Cst-1b] CST99/3/8 buffer cache?

Phebe Mann pm258@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Fri, 5 May 2000 13:31:58 +0100 (BST)


They're not at all the same; the former is do with disks (see
handout 3, pp 21-22). The latter is to do with memory translation
(see handout 2, page 8). 

HTH

Phebe

On Thu, 4 May 2000, M.Y.W.Y.B. wrote:

> CST 99.3.8: 
> 
> OS Functions
> 
> I can't remember having heard the term "buffer cache". Can anyone point me
> to the relevant slide(s) in the OS lecture notes? Or is it just another word
> for TLB?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Moritz
> 
> 
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