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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fat: improve sync performance by grouping writes revised
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:10:39PM -0500, Holden Karau wrote:
> I was thinking about the issue of running out of memory, while its not
> particularly likely to happen except on devices with huge disks and
> tiney amount of memory, it is a possibility. I can make it
> fall-through to the previous way of doing things, does that sound like
> a reasonable idea?

Yes, or you could make it sync the ones for which you did have enough
memory, and then restart.