[OLPC-devel] Re: Announce: Compressed cache 'alpha-002' release

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Tue Aug 8 22:29:57 EDT 2006


Rik van Riel wrote:
> Marcelo isn't currently online due to an accident, but I talked to
> him on the phone today.  He said he definately wants to use compressed
> swap on OLPC, so I think it would be good if you could work on
> stabilizing the current code for use on the OLPC board.
> 
> Open source being what it is, I'm sure somebody will add the page
> cache stuff and the adaptive ccache bits.  Especially if they have
> a stable base to work from :)
> 

We've talked on and off about allowing some limited swapping to the 
flash under emergency circumstances.  But no one has come along with a 
concrete way to do that yet.

--Chris



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