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

Alan Cox
2004-11-18T18:42:07Z

> I really do believe that user-space filesystems have problems. There's a
> reason we tend to do them in kernel space.
>
> But limiting the outstanding writes some way may at least hide the thing.

Possibly dumb question. Is there a reason we can't have a prctl() that
flips the PF_* flags for a user space daemon in the same way as we do
for kernel threads that do I/O processing ?