In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Since you can make any file into a block device using loop, > is there any value to supporting swap files in 2.5? > swap files seem like a special case that is no longer necessary... loop is always tricky re near-OOM deadlocks. It'll survive now, by sleeping and waiting for memory, but swapping over that changes that equation..... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
