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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2025-02-27 02:01:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2025-02-27 02:01:08 +0100 |
| commit | 050d42feddf76facd8e05b1f41c33fbcd0a1cb21 (patch) | |
| tree | 870407e7c7de4f88a69464fba43bec6f14800ab2 | |
| parent | 3997191a85da4cba780828214913d81624b189b1 (diff) | |
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Comment on rumpdisk vs swap
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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index cd5e77e9..8b3a2132 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ This is the list of tasks that we *want* to address soon, starting with the most * Port `dhcpcd`, see [call for help](https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2023/11/msg00030.html) * Make sure that lwip supports configuration by DHCP. * Extensively test (e.g. running testsuites of glibc, perl, curl, rust-mio) and fix the lwip-based TCP/IP stack, to be sure we don't get regressions by switching to it. -* Fix swapping with `rumpdisk`. +* Fix swapping with `rumpdisk` + * Apparently some wiring cases is not effective, we are seeing pageout of rumpdisk memory. * Fix the [GPLv2 vs GPLv3 licence incompatibility between ext2fs and libparted](https://bugs.debian.org/838244): * For /hurd/ext2fs, use a different libstore that does not include the parted module. * For /hurd/ext2fs.static in the bootstrap chain (e.g. to access wd0s1), add a storeio translator before it, and have ext2fs open it, use `file_get_storage_info` and access the underlying device. That wouldn't need any code modification if we were using an initial ramfs exposing that storeio on /dev/wd0s1. |