On Thu 04-12-14 09:16:25, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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? Maybe, I didn't seriously look into what would the best solution be. I trust Christoph to find a good solution for it :) Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
