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Subject: Re: revert "config FS_JOURNAL_INFO"
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
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On 12/18/09, Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> So we never allow to make memory usage small with providing an option
> to remove unused area, right?

We certainly allow this if it results in zero loss in functionality.

> If I want to reduce memory usage by this way, should I keep
> this kind of patches out of tree?

Certainly nobody can prohibit you from keeping patch out of tree.
But if you want something mainlinable, moving ->journal_info
to fs-specific data structures should do the trick. Or something.
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