http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/remap_file_pages.2.html makes no mention of the restriction against disk-based files with this system call. -Kenny > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov > <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:34:05PM -0400, Kenny Simpson wrote: >>> For the other cases I had used the remapping to have more of a sliding >>> window over a disk-backed file where I also was using aliasing to >>> eliminate the corner cases of hitting the end of a window and needing >>> to split records due to crossing boundaries, etc.. >> >> Disk backed files are not supported by remap_file_pages() since 2007. >> See commit 3ee6dafc677a. >> >> -- >> Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
