Re: Bug#260512: swap is turned OFF after disk formatting!
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:21:34PM -0600, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Swap partitions no longer have an acting_filesystem file (maybe this is
> a bug),
I don't consider this a bug. The acting_filesystem file caused #250453
and #251487 in the previous versions of partman.
> Also finish.d/mount_partitions no longer saw the swap entries, so it
> neglected to call mount.d on the swap partitions to swapon them.
Hah! A while ago I changed my mind - swap should not be turned on by
mount.d but by a separate script in finish.d. However I have forgotten
to implement this change and I have forgotten that I have forgotten.
> I'm quite sure that they were caused by making swap a method.
swap has been a method since 3 months. Removing acting_filesystem
is the only change in this version.
> Also, Christian Perrier has reported a problem where partman hangs on
> startup (at init.d/35something), it seems that parted_server has a pid
> file but is not running. I've not gotten any more info to debug this but
> it seems this is also a new problem since Christian does lots of tests
> in vmware all the time.
>
> I'm still not sure if we'll be able to include the new partman in the
> next release, since we still seem to be finding new bugs in it.
I hoped (and I still hope) that the present partman is in the most
bug-free state it has ever had. :-(
Anton Zinoviev
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