Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS

Rik van Riel
2006-08-26T21:54:42Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow
>> swapping over NFS.
>>
>> NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe.
>> A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present
>> in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>
> We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe...

OTOH, if we never enable this, what motivation do we have to
make it safe? :)

Scratching an itch works, so maybe we ought to create an itch?

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