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From: Val Henson <val@nmt.edu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove swap file support
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:36:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010716233606.A16900@boardwalk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B472C06.78A9530C@mandrakesoft.com> <3B4D5158.E125A487@fabbione.net> <3B4DAC1B.D9368E51@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B4DAC1B.D9368E51@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:54:35AM -0400

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:54:35AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Re-read my message.  I do not say get rid of swap files, only swap file
> code.  You can use loop for swap files.

Consider how often loop (doesn't) work.  Maybe doing this will
motivate people to keep loop working - or maybe they'll switch back to
swap partitions.

-VAL

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-17  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-07 15:34 RFC: Remove swap file support Jeff Garzik
2001-07-07 17:15 ` arjan
2001-07-12  7:27 ` Fabbione
2001-07-12 13:54   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-17  5:36     ` Val Henson [this message]
2001-07-14  6:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 14:44   ` jlnance
2001-07-14 16:12     ` Alan Cox
2001-07-14 17:28       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-14 15:25   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-14 17:35     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-15  3:42       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-17 11:59       ` Chris Wedgwood

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