Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [RFC PATCH 0/7] evacuate struct page from the block layer

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On 19/03/15 19:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This is all contingent upon the prevalence of machines which have vast
> amounts of nv memory and relatively small amounts of regular memory. 
> How confident are we that this really is the future?

Somewhat off-topic, but it's also the past. I can't help thinking of the
early Pick machines, which treated backing store as one giant permanent
virtual memory. Back when 300Mb hard drives were HUGE.

Cheers,
Wol


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