Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: vm-pageout-throttling.patch: hanging in throttle_vm_writeout/blk_congestion_wait | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:07:37 +0100 |
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Hans Reiser wrote:
> Does Andrew's approach prevent putting swap on a compressed file (useful > for reiser4 once the compression plugin is stable, not reiserfs)?
No, it's prevented by having a sane mind. Compression might be OK for swap, but a compressed file will compete for physical disk space - and lose. As long as the swap system doesn't know it's going to happen, you're going to lose, too. -- Orbiting [..] is a planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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