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Message-ID: <44F0C312.1050300@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:54:26 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow
>> swapping over NFS.
>>
>> NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe.
>> A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present
>> in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> 
> We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe...

OTOH, if we never enable this, what motivation do we have to
make it safe? :)

Scratching an itch works, so maybe we ought to create an itch?

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