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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:29:38 +0000
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> I really do believe that user-space filesystems have problems. There's a 
> reason we tend to do them in kernel space. 
> 
> But limiting the outstanding writes some way may at least hide the thing.

Possibly dumb question. Is there a reason we can't have a prctl() that
flips the PF_* flags for a user space daemon in the same way as we do
for kernel threads that do I/O processing ?