On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:04:06AM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: > I am not sure either, but I still believe my proposal is superior to > write-to-a-file specifically. Writing to a file, be it in proc, sys, > or wherever, leaves a window of opportunity open between mounting a > filesystem and limiting its caches. Doing it on mount is atomic. > > Effectively, I see this limit as a property of a particular instance > of a mounted filesystem. Since all properties of a filesystem are > specified during mount, this becomes a natural extension. The trouble is, dentry tree is fundamentally a property of superblock. It's shared between *all* instances of that fs in all mount trees... -- 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
