Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:04:34 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernfs: support kernfs notify in memory recliam context | From | junxiao.bi@oracle ... |
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On 11/15/23 7:30 AM, Mariusz Tkaczyk wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:53:47 -0800 > junxiao.bi@oracle.com wrote: > >> Understood, thanks. Sound like depending on Userspace on memory reclaim >> path is really bad idea and the only option for fixing it is to remove >> that dependency, but i am not sure that is possible without breaking the >> consistency of metadata. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Junxiao. > Indeed the project of external metadata management if fragile. You cares about > IMSM here (same as me) so ideally we should implement metadata management in > kernel- I think that IMSM deserved that after 10 years on the market. There is > no better option, other options are just "workarounds" for the lack of metadata > management in kernel. Agree, sound like that's the way to proceed. > > Song, any comments here? > > From the second hand, there is native raid which should just work, so maybe you > can switch to the native raid?
Unfortunately that's is not possible, it's a production setup to use imsm raid.
Thanks,
Junxiao.
> > Thanks, > Mariusz
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