Virtual Swap Space Patches Updated For Improving Linux's Swap Design (www.phoronix.com)

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The fourth iteration of patches implementing Virtual Swap Space for Linux were sent out on Wednesday. This stems from ideas going back years for an abstraction to better separate a swap entry from its physical backing storage.

Nhat Pham sent out the Virtual Swap Space v4 patches yesterday and explained for those not following the previous iterations of the patches

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[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Wonder if this will also allow swap on btrfs raid

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