[PATCH 2/2] xfs: reject swapext ioctl on swapfiles

Felix Blyakher felixb at sgi.com
Tue Feb 10 14:00:35 CST 2009


On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Swapfiles are magic - I/O is directly initialized by the VM without
> involving the filesystem.  Swapping out extents underneath the VM thus
> can cause severe problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb at sgi.com>




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