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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swapon feature additions
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:41:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111103104113.GA10539@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111027194056.GN691@rampage>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:40:56PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> 1) Introduce optional libmount support. This involves first refactoring
> reading of /etc/fstab to remove the duplicated code and use callbacks
> instead. Breaking out the functionality into libmount-powered and
> non-libmount-powered code is then much cleaner.

 I'd like to move all swapon(8) functionality to libmount and replace
 the whole swapon(8) by a small libmount based util. Unfortunately,
 swapon/swapoff support in libmount is not implemented yet.

> 2) Teach swapon/swapoff to only look at files or partitions. The use
> case in mind is specifically for unswapping only files at shutdown, as
> partitions can remain mounted without harm.

 This is probably more important, it would be nice to have 
 
    swapoff --all --files-only

> Does this seem reasonable? Is this functionality wanted? Anything else I
> should be aware of?

 Yes, my suggestion is to start with 2) :-)

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 19:40 swapon feature additions Dave Reisner
2011-11-03 10:41 ` Karel Zak [this message]

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