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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
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> It's possible, but I don't see why that's a problem. If it can get
> more memory it's OK. If allocation fails, then the write() will fail
> with ENOMEM, if OOM killer get's to work and kills the FUSE process,
> then write will return with ENOTCONN or something like that.

Why do you think it would kill the FUSE process? And why do you think
killing _any_ process would make the system come back to life? After all,
memory wasn't filled by process usage, it was filled by dirty FS pages.

I really do believe that user-space filesystems have problems. There's a
reason we tend to do them in kernel space.

But limiting the outstanding writes some way may at least hide the thing.

Linus
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