Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. > > But there are other reasons for a swap partition in the 21st century: > You miss the distinction between swap partition and swap *file*. Ok:
> > * There are some Un*x-like operating system which are able to save > > system dumps on a swap partition for debuging after system crash. Which un*x-like operation system can do this with a swap *file*? On freeBSD you need a swap partition to obtain a kernel crash dump (at least as far as I know).[0] > > * If you like to use hibernate/suspend to disk, you can build a > > kernel with something like > > CONFIG_PM=y > > CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y > > CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="/dev/sdaX" Does this also work for a swap *file*? Or do I need a swap partition? If it works with a swap *file* I would like to see an explanation how to do this or a link to a HOWTO. Thomas ------------------- [0] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html | A “swap device” is synonymous with a “swap partition.” http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dumpon&sektion=8 | Because the file system layer is already dead by the time a crash dump | is taken, it is not possible to send crash dumps directly to a file. -- Thomas Flaig mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
