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SubjectRe: vm-pageout-throttling.patch: hanging in throttle_vm_writeout/blk_congestion_wait
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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.
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