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SubjectRe: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:12:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:09 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > Dirty page accounting/limiting doesn't work for nonlinear mappings, so
> > for non-ram backed filesystems emulate with linear mappings. This
> > retains ABI compatibility with previous kernels at minimal code cost.
> >
> > All known users of nonlinear mappings actually use tmpfs, so this
> > shouldn't have any negative effect.

They do? I thought the whole point of nonlinear mappings was for
mapping files bigger than the address space (eg. databases). Is Oracle
instead using this to map >3G files on a tmpfs??

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