Andrew Morton wrote:
It is to address the "waah, backups fill my memory with pagecache" and the "waah, updatedb swapped everything out" and the "waah, copying a DVD gobbled all my memory" problems.
By removing pressure from the page cache, you'll only allow updatedb to grow the inode and dentry caches larger than before. I am sick and tired of the "this is hard, let userspace do it" attitude. -- Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country the best in the world, and those who believe it already is. Each group calls the other unpatriotic. - 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/
