Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 00:38:01 EST


On Tuesday 02 October 2007 21:40, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:21 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:

> > How about adding this information to the tree then, instead of
> > creating a new top-level hack, just because something that you think
> > you need doesn't exist.
>
> So you suggest adding all the various network filesystems in there
> (where?), and adding the concept of a BDI, and ensuring all are properly
> linked together - somehow. Feel free to do so.

Would something fit better under /sys/fs/? At least filesystems are
already an existing concept to userspace.
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