From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: btrfs and swap files on SSD's ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:02:16 -0500
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To: Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
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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