Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Pavel Machek
2004-09-03T09:42:05Z

Hi!

> > Uservfs.sf.net.
> >
> > Unlike alan, I do not think that "do it all in library" is good
> > idea. I put it in the userspace as "codafs" server, and let
> > applications see it as a regular filesystem.
>
> That works for me too, providing someone has fixed all the user mode fs
> deadlocks with paging

Its okay: coda works on whole file granularity, and files are backed
by real disk, so there are no deadlocks with paging. We only block
open() and similar syscalls, and those are not in paging paths. It
should be safe.
Pavel