Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:52:43 +0100 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: [patch/rfc] ramdisk.. final chapter? |
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Mike Galbraith wrote: > This [ bug ] is exposed by swapping madly (ultimate test) to a ramdisk.
Is there any case besides testing of startup scripts where swapping to a RAM disk accomplishes anything useful ? (Weird NUMA setups ?)
If not, maybe swapon.8 needs a warning, or swapon(8) needs a -f option.
- Werner
P.S. Thanks for fixing this badly battered part of the kernel !
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