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> I did once embark on looking at it from a CONFIG_SWAP point of view;
> but didn't get far before more urgent work intervened.  And your
> argument grows weaker, with filesystems spreading through drivers,
> and even to arch (spufs).

True, but these are usually pseudo file systems just containing 
a few kernel generated files where most "real" fs related stuff doesn't matter much.

-Andi