On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:00 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > I'm not at all happy with this, but plain disallowing remap_file_pages on > > bdis > > without BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK seems to offend some people, hence restrict it > > to > > root only. > > I don't think that's a viable approach. Nonlinear mappings would normally > be used by databases, and you don't want to limit databases to be run by > root only.
It was claimed that they use it on tmpfs only, not on a 'real' filesystem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
