Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:54:26 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > 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...
OTOH, if we never enable this, what motivation do we have to make it safe? :)
Scratching an itch works, so maybe we ought to create an itch?
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