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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html