Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:29:38 +0000 |
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> 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.
Possibly dumb question. Is there a reason we can't have a prctl() that flips the PF_* flags for a user space daemon in the same way as we do for kernel threads that do I/O processing ?
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