Unfortunately, one way would involve pushing the referenced bit check
into the writepage() method. But that is the only place we have the
kind of information necessary to make these decisions.
This is exactly the kind of issue Linus and myself were talking
about when the "cost analysis" parts of thie discussion began.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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