-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/08 09:53, Thomas Flaig wrote: > 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]
This is Linux, not BSD. Of course, I've never heard of Linux being able to do crash dumps. >>> * 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? Since I don't have a laptop running Linux, I've never had reason to examine this. Can the STD partition be the same as the 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. That's weak. OpenVMS is able to send crash dumps to pre-created special files. Of course, Linux not being able to do crash dumps at all is even weaker. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFHlMmuS9HxQb37XmcRAo27AJiucG574EZa3echvq2K3jQbRwsOAKCIkkEI eloyMaoPIprnmRwza7tJeQ== =i1Vu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
