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Swapfile support on ZFS and bcachefs

Project to make swapfiles work, or work better, on ZFS and bcachefs filesystems.

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01 / The problem

What it addresses

Writing swap on ZFS and bcachefs may need to allocate memory exactly when the system is out of memory.

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  1. Swapfile support on ZFS and bcachefs

    Project to make swapfiles work, or work better, on ZFS and bcachefs filesystems.

    Problem: Writing swap on ZFS and bcachefs may need to allocate memory exactly when the system is out of memory.

    Posted by @eru · Original comment ↗

    “Another somewhat ambitions project is to make swapfiles on ZFS and bcachefs work (or work better), at the moment the problem is that writing swap on them might need to allocate memory exactly when you are out of memory.”