Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap
On 08/11/2018 01:56 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
> Why I care at all: In the past, I used to test the Debian installer on
> my main computer as it was the only one with up to date hardware, and I
> had on it my working OS and a spare installation, and one or two DI
> test installations. I found it quite annoying that after each test
> the UUID of the swap changed, so I stopped testing DI.
What's wrong with using a virtual machine for that? Why test d-i
on real hardware? On a VM, you'd just throw away the image afterwards.
> BTW the 5 people in the world having more than one installation on the
> same machine presumably know well how to avoid the potential problems of
> shared swap.
That's fine. But software has to adjust for the needs of 99.99% of its
users and not to 5 people who have an exotic usecase.
Adrian
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