On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 03:25:48AM +1100, leon zadorin wrote: > > In other words what are the advantages to using vnconfig for swapping > as opposed to just calling swapctl/swapon directly on a regular file? > Moreover, fstab also takes regular file for swap partitions just fine > and subsequent (implicit) call to swapon also appears to work just > fine... > > Does it have to do, may be, with earlier versions of swapctl not > working with regular files... or some other historical differences in > the early days? >
i don't have any answers here... first off, swapctl is a bit ambiguous in referring to "swap devices and files". i'm guessing the document was corrected when it was noted that files could be used as well as devices for swap, but i could be off the money. then the vnd thing...maybe a relic from when swap was not encrypted by default. again i'm not sure. maybe someone can step in here and we can clear up the docs. jmc
