Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:42:10 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Fw: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc-mm4 reiser4 calls try_to_unmap() with 1 arg -- now takes 2 |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote: > > >>Umm, no, copy on capture needs to get enabled again as soon as we get >> past issues outsiders care about, and start dealing again with improving >> the code in the ways we think matter. There are real problems that are >> addressed by copy on capture. That it has not been worked on since >> 2.6.5 just sadly indicates how successful folks have been in distracting >> us for so long. >> >> > >Dinking with rmap internals from within a filesystem is a real problem. >Whatever needs to be done there should be done within core MM if it's done >anywhere so it actually gets maintained by the people who are likely to >break it. > >Something like >http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc4/2.6.13-rc4-mm1/broken-out/add-page-becoming-writable-notification.patch >might be what you're after. > > > > > I don't actually care (at least I desire that I not have to care ;-) ) about the implementation of copy-on-capture so long as it works. I am sure vs will be happy to do it within core mm when we get to where he can pay attention to it again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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