On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:47:39AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> >
> > Well. Do we really? Are we looking for a 100% solution here, or a 90% one?
> Umm, I think that for ext3 having data on one end of the disk and
> indirect blocks on the other end of the disk does not quite help (not
> mentioning
> > Unfortunately this patch doesn't completely solve this problem, since
> > the system will still be hosed due to all memory being used up by
> > dentries. And I bet the OOM killer won't find the real target (du)
> > but will kill anything before that.
> >
> > So the second part of the problem i
