Ticket #22 (new enhancement)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

LVM Support

Reported by: iamthepirateking@case.edu Assigned to: somebody
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Description

It would be nice if swapspace could support the use of LVM for making its temporary swaps. It could work by specifying a set of volume groups to use. Instead of making swap files, new swap images could be made on any free space in the volume group. When there is no more room in the volume groups, swapspace could fall back to creating files as normal.

Change History

11/29/06 10:13:10 changed by jtv

That's getting pretty intimate with the system though. It probably requires configuration, and putting my Murphy hat on for a moment, I think it would increase the risk of accidents that might damage the filesystem in some way.

At the same time I wonder if it would really buy us much compared to swap files. Do many LVM users keep disk space free for later allocation to a partition? Is there a performance advantage to using LVM instead of files?