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
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2011-10-27 19:40 swapon feature additions Dave Reisner
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