Hi Bart,
Bart Smaalders wrote:
> adrian cockcroft wrote:
>   
>> Why can't you adapt ZFS for swap? It does the transactional clustering 
>> of random writes into sequential related blocks, aggressive prefetch on 
>> read, and would also guard against corrupt blocks in swap. Anon-ZFS?
>>     
>
> This is planned as part of the VM 2.0 project.  Note that the plan is to
> use a DMU object per address space or one per segment of an address space.
>
> - Bart
>
>   
So, the VM 2.0 project.  Is this a new memory management mechanism?  If 
so, any documentation?  I saw a
paper by Erik Lowe (I think it was Erik?) about re-writing the memory 
management subsystem that he
wrote about a year ago, but then nothing.

thanks,
max

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