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 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
