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

[Jamie Lokier]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Why do you think it would kill the FUSE process? And why do you think 
> killing _any_ process would make the system come back to life? After all, 
> memory wasn't filled by process usage, it was filled by dirty FS pages.
> 
> I really do believe that user-space filesystems have problems. There's a 
> reason we tend to do them in kernel space. 

Are kernel space filesystems immune from this problem?  What happens
when they need to kmalloc() in order to write some data?

-- Jamie
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