Ticket #7 (assigned defect)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Resize swap files on-the-fly

Reported by: jtv Assigned to: jtv (accepted)
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: component1 Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

Why can GNU/Linux resize several types of filesystem but not a swap filesystem?

Looking at mm/swapfile.` in the 2.6.10 kernel source, it's hard to escape the impression that this was supposed to be supported all along. In-core swapfile metadata is always allocated to support the maximum swapfile size as far as I can see, and the way extents of swap space are added into this structure already looks as if the file is being expanded from a working state.

Change History

07/31/05 10:21:27 changed by jtv

  • priority changed from normal to low.

07/31/05 10:21:37 changed by jtv

  • owner changed from somebody to jtv.
  • status changed from new to assigned.