linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list

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Message-ID: <20070207190632.GA3350@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:06:32 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, jack@...e.cz,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list_lock usage in dquot.c

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:05PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> With filesystems that can turn on their quota after mount time (about 
> every fs except xfs), I can surely have a ton of files open, and hence, 
> if I understand correctly, have lots of inodes instantiated.

Yes, you can in theory.  But turning on quota on a filesystem in full
steam useage is not a common use case and thus there is no point in
optimizing for it.

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