Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: [patch] fix for pagecache fs corruption (2.3.15-pre2) [Re:

# Re: [patch] fix for pagecache fs corruption (2.3.15-pre2) [Re:

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:41:44 -0700 (PDT)

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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> run the above proggy on a bigmem machine and you'll leak lots of memory in
> unfreeable inodes.

..which is why a patch to make inodes freeable would be accepted.

It has actually been on my list of things to do for a while, but I never
got around to it. If you make inodes freeable, ALL of the inode complexity
just goes away (forget about the inode-max stuff and the nasty logic to
make sure that we try to free dentries etc even if we have tons of memory
left).

You're working around the problem, methinks.

Linus

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