Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:26:28 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:16:48 +1200 Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz> wrote:
| On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 12:17, CaT wrote: | > I'm curious. What does a swapfile solve that a swapdev does not? Either | > way you need to prealloc the case (either have a chunky file in a | > partition or a partition set aside) or you need to keep enough room | > avail to fit the file when it's needed. | | Nothing but further bloat in swsusp :> With a swapfile, we need to know | the location of the file (and be able to find it again when it changes, | and know how to find the next block in the file system - it might be | fragmented). The simplest solution is to keep using the current method | and create a separate swap partition if you really feel you need to, | only turning it on before swap and turning if off afterwards. As Pavel | said, code could be added to get swsusp to do it itself.
That may be simple for you, but for lots of users, adding a partition (to a ususally full disk drive) isn't simple. It means backups, shrink a filesystem, shrink a partition, add a partition, and run mkswap on it. Yes, the latter 2 are simple, but the former ones are not.
Oh, and then just start over and install everything from backups. :(
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