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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS
Hi!

> Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow
> swapping over NFS.
>
> NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe.
> A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present
> in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe...

Also swsusp interactions will be interesting. (Rafael is working on
swapfile support these days).
Pavel
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