Re: partman-auto: swap on an LVM logical volume?

[David Härdeman <david@2gen.com>]

On Thu, June 15, 2006 15:47, Frans Pop said:
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 15:27, David Härdeman wrote:
>> Currently none of the partman-auto-lvm recipies allows swap to be
>> placed on a lvm volume by not setting the $lvmok{ } flag for it.
>
> This has been discussed on this list fairly recently.

I'm guessing you meant this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/10/msg01082.html

> One major reason seems to be to allow resume swap after suspend-to-disk.

Using initramfs-tools, I resume from a swap-on-lvm partition daily.

> I think there were other reasons.

The reasons I could find in the above mentioned thread were:

suspend:  not a problem

lowmem:   if you're not able to have swap on lvm due to lowmem,
          are you really able to have root on lvm?

overhead: do we have any proof at all for this claim?
          harddrive transfer rates should be the bottleneck, not the
          (theoretical) lvm overhead.