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Frontswap gets broadsided

Posted Nov 9, 2011 9:11 UTC (Wed) by kugel (subscriber, #70540)
Parent article: Frontswap gets broadsided

Didn't the kernel developers agreed to lower the bar for features that are generally accepted outside mainline (e.g. Wakelocks, https://lwn.net/Articles/464298/)?

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I think you misunderstand...

Posted Nov 9, 2011 15:07 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

The exact quite:

When code has millions of users, we have to say "yes" to it.

Where are millions of frontswap users???

I think you misunderstand...

Posted Nov 19, 2011 1:24 UTC (Sat) by mfedyk (guest, #55303) [Link]

If you look at all of the xen based hosting providers, their customers and the associated users of those web sites you have many millions of people right there.

With that said, I personally perefer using and administrating kvm...