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========== Page Cache

The page cache is the primary way that the user and the rest of the kernel interact with filesystems. It can be bypassed (e.g. with O_DIRECT), but normal reads, writes and mmaps go through the page cache.

Folios

The folio is the unit of memory management within the page cache. Operations