Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:28:14 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
Are kernel space filesystems immune from this problem? What happens when they need to kmalloc() in order to write some data?
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