On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:37:53PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Don't be misled. Swapping over NFS is just a scarecrow for the > seemingly real impetus behind these changes which is network storage > stuff like iSCSI.
So can we please do swap over network storage only first? All these VM bits look conceptually sane to me, while the changes to the swap code to support nfs are real crackpipe material. Then again doing that part properly by adding address_space methods for swap I/O without the abuse might be a really good idea, especially as the way we do swapfiles on block-based filesystems is an horrible hack already. So please get the VM bits for swap over network blockdevices in first, and then we can look into a complete revamp of the swapfile support that cleans up the current mess and adds support for nfs insted of making the mess even worse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
