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Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives by jolmg on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @02:27PM (#19852097)
Isn't swap basically expanded memory while using DRAM as cache? It seems like this could be just a different way of operating that cache.

I wonder if this new feature would be used with swapon/swapoff or if it would need a different interface.

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Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives by robbyt on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @07:26PM (#19854411)
Intel have a fork of Redis that uses Optane storage instead of RAM. The end result is a persistent DB that can operate at the speed of Redis.
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