Hey Cris,
Chris Mason wrote:
This doesn't quite play nicely with btrfs and should lead to all kinds
of problemsI'm looking into how to disable swapfiles completely.
Please try to support swapfiles. I know their drawbacks and still use
them quite often.
Cheers
Kaspar
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote:
There are patches to support swap over NFS that might make it safe to
use on btrfs. At any rate, it is a fixable problem.
FreeBSD has been able to run swap over NFS for as long as I can
remember, what is different in
The second is an implementation detail of the linux swap file code. It
expects filesystems don't move blocks around, and takes a mapping of the
blocks in the FS once.
This doesn't work with btrfs because we do move blocks around all the
time.
That's interesting. I have a few questions:
Dmitri Nikulin dniku...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Chris Mason chris.ma...@oracle.com wrote:
There are patches to support swap over NFS that might make it safe to
use on btrfs. At any rate, it is a fixable problem.
FreeBSD has been able to run swap over NFS for as
