Please apply to prevent users for doing stupid things.
Pavel
--- clean//Documentation/Configure.help Wed Jun 2 14:10:05 1999
+++ linux/Documentation/Configure.help Thu Jun 10 17:56:24 1999
@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@
Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
+ It is bad idea to swap onto loop device or to use loop device on
+ sparse files.
+
If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be
@@ -276,6 +279,9 @@
where to find the server code, which runs in user space and does not
need special kernel support.
+ It is bad idea to swap onto nbd without special patches available
+ from http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html.
+
Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
@@ -1113,6 +1119,8 @@
Software-RAID mini-HOWTO, available via FTP (user: anonymous) from
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini. There you will also
learn where to get the supporting user space utilities raidtools.
+
+ It is very bad idea to swap onto raid device.
If unsure, say N.
-- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/