Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932139AbVKKANb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:13:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932267AbVKKANb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:13:31 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31669 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932139AbVKKANa (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:13:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:12:59 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: pmarques@grupopie.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, axboe@suse.de, neilb@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: userspace block driver? Message-Id: <20051110161259.1189a040.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <4371A4ED.9020800@pobox.com> <17265.42782.188870.907784@cse.unsw.edu.au> <4371A944.6070302@pobox.com> <20051109075455.GN3699@suse.de> <4371ACE6.7010503@pobox.com> <4371EEBA.2080706@grupopie.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 473 Lines: 12 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > N.B. though FUSE itself is free of deadlocks, as soon as you put > something on top of it which has asyncronous page writeback it will > not be safe anymore. Why? What goes wrong? - 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/