Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 12:37 am

From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:26:32 +1100

quoted text> Is it really worth all the added complexity of making swap
> over NFS files work, given that you could use a network block
> device instead?

Don't be misled.  Swapping over NFS is just a scarecrow for the
seemingly real impetus behind these changes which is network storage
stuff like iSCSI.
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[PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Oct 30, 12:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Nick Piggin, (Tue Oct 30, 11:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Oct 31, 7:27 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Jeff Garzik, (Wed Oct 31, 8:16 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Oct 31, 8:56 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Robin Humble, (Sun Nov 18, 2:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Pavel Machek, (Fri Nov 2, 4:54 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Gregory Haskins, (Wed Oct 31, 9:44 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, (Wed Oct 31, 9:18 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, David Miller, (Wed Oct 31, 12:37 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Oct 31, 5:53 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Oct 31, 4:50 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Oct 31, 6:56 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Mike Snitzer, (Wed Oct 31, 10:54 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Wed Oct 31, 12:31 pm)

NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Pavel Machek, (Wed Oct 31, 7:18 am)

Re: NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Oct 31, 7:24 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Nick Piggin, (Wed Oct 31, 12:04 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14, Byron Stanoszek, (Wed Oct 31, 10:03 am)

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