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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: btrfs and swap files on SSD's ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:02:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232456536.15042.0.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4975AA6C.8@schleiser.de>

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:41 +0100, Kaspar Schleiser wrote:
> Hey Cris,
> 
> Chris Mason wrote:
> > This doesn't quite play nicely with btrfs and should lead to all kinds
> > of problems....I'm looking into how to disable swapfiles completely.
> Please try to support swapfiles. I know their drawbacks and still use 
> them quite often.

There are patches to support swap over NFS that might make it safe to
use on btrfs. At any rate, it is a fixable problem.

But today, swapfiles on btrfs will corrupt other file data.

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-20 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-17  0:10 btrfs and swap files on SSD's ? Chris Samuel
2009-01-19 16:22 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-20 10:41   ` Kaspar Schleiser
2009-01-20 13:02     ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-01-20 13:51       ` Dmitri Nikulin
2009-01-20 14:31         ` Chris Mason
2009-01-20 16:35           ` Anthony Roberts
2009-01-20 16:41             ` Chris Mason
2009-01-21  6:15         ` Andi Kleen

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