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From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Repair SWAP-over-NFS
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:44:04PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> swap-over-NFS currently has a variety of problems.
> 
> Due to a newish test in generic_write_checks(), all writes to swap
> currently fail.

And by "currently", you mean "for over two years" (August 2019).
Does swap-over-NFS (or any other network filesystem) actually have any
users, and should we fix it or rip it out?