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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:32:17 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swapoff weird
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Hi!

> >[David Feuer]
> > > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that
> > > this is not the last link to a swapfile.
> >
> >Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and
> >clear immutable bit.  Sure it only works on ext2 but how far do you
> >want to take this thing?
> 
> In a private email, linux@horizon.com  wrote:
> 
> >No; we should add some more magic-symlink /proc entries, like
> >/proc/<pid>/fd/<n> for swap files.  Then they can be accessed
> >by swapoff even if they're deleted.
> 
> Seems like a good idea to me...

We could make them opened by kswapd.

								Pavel
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