Ticket #7 (assigned defect)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Resize swap files on-the-fly

Reported by: jtv Owned by: jtv
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: component1 Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

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

Changed 5 years ago by jtv

  • priority changed from normal to low

Changed 5 years ago by jtv

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