On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 3:02 AM Ulrich Windl <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> schrieb am 19.11.2021 um 10:17 > in > Nachricht <YZdrlBiIK3rt7l0z@gardel-login>: > > On Do, 18.11.21 14:51, Chris Murphy ([email protected]) wrote: > > > >> How to do swapfiles? > > > > Is this really a concept that deserves too much attention? I mean, I > > have the suspicion that half the benefit of swap space is that it can > > act as backing store for hibernation. But swap files are icky for that > > since that means the resume code has to mount the fs first, but given > > the fs is dirty during the hibernation state this is highly problematic. > > > > Hence, I have the suspicion that if you do swap you should probably do > > swap partitions, not swap files, because it can cover all usecase: > > paging *and* hibernation. > > Out of curiosity: What about swap LVs, possibly thin-provisioned ones?
I don't think that's supported. https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2020-November/msg00039.html -- Chris Murphy
