Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:03:05 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list_lock usage in dquot.c |
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On Feb 7 2007 08:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> That loop has (and had) up to O(n^n) operations. Is there something which >> prevents this from going insane? > >I don't think so. Then again it's only called when you call quotaon on >a mounted filesystem, and normally you don't have that many inodes >instanciated at that time.
With filesystems that can turn on their quota after mount time (about every fs except xfs), I can surely have a ton of files open, and hence, if I understand correctly, have lots of inodes instantiated.
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