Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS

Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi!

Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow
swapping over NFS.

NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe.
A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present
in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe...

OTOH, if we never enable this, what motivation do we have to
make it safe? :)

Scratching an itch works, so maybe we ought to create an itch?

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