Hello, On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:08:35PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Yeah, but for the filesystem on top it doesn't really matter. Filesystems > simply don't expect underlying structures can disappear. Changing all > filesystems to deal with that would be too difficult so we have to make bdi > stay in memory as needed and just detach it from the device (request queue) > which goes away. Wouldn't it be better to concentrate lifetime management to request_queue instead of inserting another severance layer between bdi and request_queue? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
