From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:15:00 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m15IvfY-000OzlC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B472C06.78A9530C@mandrakesoft.com>
In article <3B472C06.78A9530C@mandrakesoft.com> you wrote:
> Since you can make any file into a block device using loop,
> is there any value to supporting swap files in 2.5?
> swap files seem like a special case that is no longer necessary...
loop is always tricky re near-OOM deadlocks. It'll survive now, by sleeping
and waiting for memory, but swapping over that changes that equation.....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-07 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-07 15:34 Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:15 ` arjan [this message]
2001-07-12 7:27 ` Fabbione
2001-07-12 13:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-17 5:36 ` Val Henson
2001-07-14 6:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 14:44 ` jlnance
2001-07-14 16:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-14 17:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 15:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-14 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-15 3:42 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-17 11:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
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