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From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: RE: Tmem [PATCH 0/5] (Take 3): Transcendent memory
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> > One feature of frontswap which is different than ramzswap is
> > that frontswap acts as a "fronting store" for all configured
> > swap devices, including SAN/NAS swap devices.  It doesn't
> > need to be separately configured as a "highest priority" swap
> > device.  In many installations and depending on how ramzswap
> 
> Ok, I'd call it a bug, not a feature :-).
> 								Pavel

I agree it has little value (or might be considered a bug)
when managing Linux on a physical machine.  But when
Linux is running in a virtual machine, it's one less thing
that a sysadmin needs to understand and configure.
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