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Bug#261448: marked as done (Is it really necesary for the partitioner to check the swap space?)

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Comments/Problems:

What does the partitioner do in it's "check the swap space" phase?

If it's just doing a media check, it seems a great waste of time.
It takes several minutes to complete for a 1GB swap area.
Maybe a media check was appropriate for the relatively unreliable
disks in use a decade ago when Linux was young, but not today...

Moreover, looking in /proc/swaps on the F2 console while the swap space
check is running indicates that that swap space in in use at the time!
This is probably dangerous -- especially on systems with small RAM.

Rick

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Source: partman-basicfilesystems
Source-Version: 34

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:49:27PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> What does the partitioner do in it's "check the swap space" phase?
> 
> If it's just doing a media check, it seems a great waste of time.
> It takes several minutes to complete for a 1GB swap area.
> Maybe a media check was appropriate for the relatively unreliable
> disks in use a decade ago when Linux was young, but not today...
> 
> Moreover, looking in /proc/swaps on the F2 console while the swap space
> check is running indicates that that swap space in in use at the time!
> This is probably dangerous -- especially on systems with small RAM.

We no longer do this check:

partman-basicfilesystems (34) unstable; urgency=low

  * Joey Hess
    - Always format swap partitions. Closes: #238384
      (Also fixes the bug of checking mounted swap partitions.)
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 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:45:03 +0200

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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