Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Union Mount: A Directory listing approach with lseek support

2007-12-06 Thread sfjro
Bharata B Rao: > - The cache can grow arbitrarily large in size for big directories thereby > consuming lots of memory. Pruning individual cache entries is out of question > as entire cache is needed for subsequent readdirs for duplicate elimination. Additionally, the memory usage may be a

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Union Mount: A Directory listing approach with lseek support

2007-12-06 Thread sfjro
Bharata B Rao: - The cache can grow arbitrarily large in size for big directories thereby consuming lots of memory. Pruning individual cache entries is out of question as entire cache is needed for subsequent readdirs for duplicate elimination. Additionally, the memory usage may be a problem