From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: no way to swapoff a deleted swap file?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:42:41 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.0.999.0810180032380.13874@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810171250410.22374@blonde.site>
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Somebody might want their swapfiles to have zero links,
> > _and_ the possibility of doing swapoff.
>
> You're right, they might, and it's not an unreasonable wish.
> But we've not supported it in the past, and I still don't
> think it's worth adding special kernel support for it now.
IMO it depends on the cost. Maybe it's cheap to keep an extra fd around,
maybe you'd have to add an extra infrastructure for this. And maybe it's not
important enough for anybody to create a patch and let us know ...
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[not found] ` <bnJFK-3bu-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-10-16 23:43 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-16 23:43 ` Bodo Eggert
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2008-10-17 8:20 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-17 8:20 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-10-17 12:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-17 12:36 ` David Newall
2008-10-17 22:42 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2008-10-18 0:31 ` Peter Cordes
2008-10-18 5:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-10-18 20:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-18 20:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-18 20:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-11-14 2:37 ` [PATCH 2.6.28?] don't unlink an active swapfile Hugh Dickins
2008-11-14 4:08 ` Peter Cordes
2008-11-14 17:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-14 18:02 ` Hugh Dickins
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2008-10-16 8:28 ` no way to swapoff a deleted swap file? Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-16 22:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-17 6:28 ` David Newall
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