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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:58:33 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes
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On 9 Aug 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I don't know about that.  We already can swap over just about
> everything because we can swap over the loopback device.

Last I looked the loopback device could deadlock your
system without you needing to swap over it ;)

Rik
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