Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Jamie Lokier
2004-11-18T18:30:46Z

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