Re: [PATCH][2.6] No swapping on memory backed swapfiles

[John Bradford]

Quote from Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>:
> Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +	bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
> >  +	if (bdi->memory_backed)
> >  +		goto bad_swap;
> >  +
> 
> I guess that makes sense, although someone might want to swap onto a
> ramdisk-backed file just for some testing purpose.

Or because some RAM is slower than the rest.  This came up a while ago
on the list.

John.
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