From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Barry K. Nathan" Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:55:37 -0800 Message-ID: <986ed62e0601221155x6a57e353vf14db02cc219c09@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.193]:21188 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751327AbWAVTzk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:55:40 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s14so558593wxc for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:55:37 -0800 (PST) To: Al Boldi In-Reply-To: <200601212108.41269.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 1/21/06, Al Boldi wrote: > A long time ago, when i was a kid, I had dream. It went like this: [snip] FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.)