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From: Robert White <rwhite@pobox.com>
To: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>,
	Btrfs BTRFS <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NOCOW and Swap Files?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:48:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5448182C.8000809@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141022204231.GD18164@carfax.org.uk>

On 10/22/2014 01:42 PM, Hugo Mills wrote:
>     swap-on-NFS is still, I think, in a set of out of tree patches, and
> it's not gone anywhere near btrfs yet. It's just that once it does
> land in mainline, it would form the appropriate infrastructure to
> develop swapfile capability for btrfs.

I just looked at my 3.16.6 kernel tree and there is a check-box for swap 
over NFS in the network file systems menu. For whatever that's worth.

But as of now only the loopdev method is workable if I understand you 
correctly.

Thanks.

--Rob.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 20:08 NOCOW and Swap Files? Robert White
2014-10-22 20:25 ` Hugo Mills
2014-10-22 20:39   ` Robert White
2014-10-22 20:42     ` Hugo Mills
2014-10-22 20:48       ` Robert White [this message]
2014-10-23  7:34   ` Russell Coker
2014-10-23 11:22 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn

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