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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:22:47 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15
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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Another posting of the full swap over NFS series. 
> 
> Andrew/Linus, could we start thinking of sticking this in -mm?
> 

Two questions:
1 - what is the memory use impact on the system which don't do swap over 
NFS, such as embedded systems, and
2 - what is the advantage of this code over the two existing network 
swap approaches, swapping to NFS mounted file and swap to NBD device?

I've used the NFS file when a program was running out of memory and that 
seemed to work, people in UNYUUG have reported that the nbd swap works, 
so what's better here?

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