From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Maksim Melnikau <maxposedon@gmail.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fstab zram swap integration idea
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:42:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130107124206.GF28963@x2.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGbmdnVWDifpsPvKUkdP+qX0m4GL7VYky5NyB-XYNGS19aXsvA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 03:17:52AM +0300, Maksim Melnikau wrote:
> Linux kernel now have interesting zram feature, which I would like to
hmm... why this all is not completely hidden in kernel memory
management? Why we need re-route by special device?
Is it designed for anything other than swaparea?
> initialize via fstab. May be you find it interesting, and this feature
> will be implemented:
>
> It will be nice, add to fstab option "mkswap before swapon", which
> could be used for auto-initialization swap in zram.
swapon(8) already contains swap area reinitialization code (exec
mkswap), it's used for --fixpgsz.
Maybe we can add "mkswap" fstab and command line option for swapon.
Anyway, mkswap is a nice and quick way how to lost data if you make a
typo in your configuration.
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-07 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-06 0:17 fstab zram swap integration idea Maksim Melnikau
2013-01-07 12:42 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2013-01-07 14:52 ` Maksim Melnikau
2013-01-10 9:47 ` Karel Zak
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