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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:54:26 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS
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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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