From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([64.131.90.16]:50373 "EHLO mx2.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755279Ab3AOBjY (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:39:24 -0500 Received: from [199.115.105.252] (helo=mail.parallels.com) by mx2.parallels.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TuvUp-0006Rs-IN for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:39:23 -0500 Message-ID: <50F4B348.3090401@parallels.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:39:20 +0900 From: dima MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: partition question References: <50F06639.6030409@home.nl> <818D716E-CEFF-4170-B470-574D6E98375E@colorremedies.com> <20130111223845.GV19051@carfax.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130111223845.GV19051@carfax.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > I don't know this area of the code at all well, but as I understand > it, there's been some work in the kernel (swap over NFS) which lays > down some of the underlying infrastructure we'd need to support > swapfiles on btrfs, but we don't have anything beyond that. I don't > know of anyone working on it, either. > > Hugo. > You can use swapfile on btrfs with mounting it via a loop device. It won't be incredibly fast, but it will work.