From: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when
 FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:29:09 +0200
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Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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	Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I 
> forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably 
> accepted ;).
>
>   


You mean SpadFS[1] right ?

> 			Linus
>   

Gabriel

[1] http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/spadfs/