On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:36:29AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > I need this in fsblock because I am working to ensure filesystem metadata > can be correctly allocated and refcounted. This means that page cleaning > should not require memory allocation (to be really robust). Which, unfortunately, is just a dream for any filesystem that uses delayed allocation. i.e. they have to walk the free space trees which may need to be read from disk and therefore require memory to succeed.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
