Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754442AbYJQMg1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:36:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753142AbYJQMgT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:36:19 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:42810 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752181AbYJQMgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:36:18 -0400 Message-ID: <48F886B9.8030403@davidnewall.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:06:09 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh Dickins CC: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Peter Zijlstra , Peter Cordes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm Subject: Re: no way to swapoff a deleted swap file? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 18 Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Bodo Eggert wrote: > >> Somebody might want their swapfiles to have zero links, >> _and_ the possibility of doing swapoff. >> > > You're right, they might, and it's not an unreasonable wish. > But we've not supported it in the past, and I still don't > think it's worth adding special kernel support for it now. But it is supported now. It's swapoff that's not supported, and I don't think that matters. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/