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Originally shared on Hacker News
Swapfile support on ZFS and bcachefs
Project to make swapfiles work, or work better, on ZFS and bcachefs filesystems.
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.
02 / Source history
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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.”