Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:03:05 +0100 (MET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file writing |
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Hi,
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Let me repeat myself one more time: > > I do not believe that "get_block()" is as big of a problem as people make > it out to be.
The real problem is that get_block() doesn't scale and it's very hard to do. A recursive per inode-semaphore might help, but it's still a pain to get it right.
bye, Roman
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