Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 06:30:47 -0500 | From | David Nicol <> | Subject | OO swap interface |
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Here's an idea that has been mulling under my mullet for the last few weeks:
the nbd can be used for a swap device, but since swap has no reason to inform the drive about what parts of it are free, it is not possible to have a central nbd server overcommit for multiple client swapping nodes.
Therefore I wonder how tricky it would be to create a swap interface that is ignorant of disk geometries. the swap interface language would accept requests for space, with unique handles, and would return the swapped-out data on representation of the handle. Like a virtual memory hat check.
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