Subject: Re: READ ME: new swap code, and configuration.
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Not for internal consumption <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/12/1997 21:14:56
Paul Kranenburg sez:
/*
* > Great! Is there (or will there be) also an "swapoff" command, for
* > flushing and then removing swap-devices?
*
* Not yet. The (syscall) interface is in place, but it turns out that
* the implementation has a few hard parts to crack, given the current
* interaction between the swap pager (which hasn't changed much) and
* vm_swap.c (the swap device manager).
*
* two possible approaches are:
*
* - make vm_swap.c and swap_pager.c co-operate to identify all
* blocks allocated on a swap device that is to be removed.
*
* - have vm_swap.c set up a placeholder map that is able to
* redirect swap I/O requests to the remaining swap devices.
*
* -pk
*/
D. Both of the above
At least, that's what it looks like to me...
--*greywolf;
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