Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:32:19 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6] No swapping on memory backed swapfiles |
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Quote from Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>: > Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > > + bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; > > + if (bdi->memory_backed) > > + goto bad_swap; > > + > > I guess that makes sense, although someone might want to swap onto a > ramdisk-backed file just for some testing purpose.
Or because some RAM is slower than the rest. This came up a while ago on the list.
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