Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262844AbUKRSaq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:30:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262830AbUKRS35 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:29:57 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:49540 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262843AbUKRS2i (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:28:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:28:14 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Miklos Szeredi , hbryan@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace Message-ID: <20041118182814.GB29736@mail.shareable.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 17 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? -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/