[fuse-devel] Re: [MC] [CHECKER] Need help on mmap on FUSE (linux user-land file system)

[Kyle M. <mrm...@ma...>]

On Mar 13, 2005, at 02:28, Junfeng Yang wrote:
> Forget to mention, we are checking linux 2.6.  It appears to us that 
> mmap
> doesnt' work for FUSE in linux 2.6.

IIRC, the reason mmap doesn't work on FUSE is because when it dirties 
pages they
cannot be flushed reliably, because writing them out involves calling a 
userspace
process which may allocate RAM, etc.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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