Re: journaling & VM (was: Re: reiserfs being part of the kernel: it'snot just the code)

Hans Reiser
2000-06-07T17:48:31Z

"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:

> Use reservations. That's the point --- you reserve in advance, so that
> the VM can *guarantee* that you can continue to pin more pages up to
> the maximum you have reserved. You take a reservation before starting
> a fs operation, so that if you need to block, it doesn't prevent the
> running transaction from being committed.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen

Ok, let's admit it, we have been agreeing on this with you for 9 months and no
code has been written by any of us.:-/

Hnas