Re: [PATCH] remove sb->s_files and file_list_lock usage in dquot.c

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Feb 7 2007 08:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>> That loop has (and had) up to O(n^n) operations.  Is there something which
>> prevents this from going insane?
>
>I don't think so.  Then again it's only called when you call quotaon on
>a mounted filesystem, and normally you don't have that many inodes
>instanciated at that time.

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.


Jan
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