From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:28:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20041118182814.GB29736@mail.shareable.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Szeredi , hbryan@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz Return-path: To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why do you think it would kill the FUSE process? And why do you think > killing _any_ process would make the system come back to life? After all, > memory wasn't filled by process usage, it was filled by dirty FS pages. > > I really do believe that user-space filesystems have problems. There's a > reason we tend to do them in kernel space. Are kernel space filesystems immune from this problem? What happens when they need to kmalloc() in order to write some data? -- Jamie