Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:23:04 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [announce] swap mini-howto |
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > That has changed in 2.5. Swapping onto a regular file has no > > disadvantage wrt swapping onto a block device. The kernel does > > not need to allocate any memory at all to get a swapcache page > > onto disk. > > Well, you can swsusp to partition. You can't swsusp to a file, as that > is very hard to do.
Why is it very hard to do ?
For the swap layer, swap to a partition or to a file is the same thing.
Does swsusp rely on restoring memory from the swap partition before mounting the root filesystem or is there more behind your objection ?
regards,
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