In article <linux.kernel.20000330184156.A808@work.bitmover.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
>I've watched this go on (and on and on) and I don't remember anyone
>thinking of this easy solution: just use free disk space in any
>mounted file system as swap over flow. So if you run out, create
>/lost+found/swap-overflow, do a mkswap on it, and start allocating
>swap pages out of there. What's the problem with that?
I think it's been done; if it has, it sunk without a trace.
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david parsons \bi/ probably time to reinvent vfork().
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