Tim: >> To be able to do that, it has to be able to read within a >> filesystem by itself. There's probably only a small set of >> filesystems it can handle. Samuel Sieb: > No, you point the kernel at the offset of the header within the > partition. The header contains pointers to the rest of the data. > It doesn't have to know anything about the filesystem. Surely that'd be dependent on the entireity of the swap file being arranged on the drive in a predictable manner. What if a swap file was created on a system that didn't arrange all the bits so predictably? e.g. A swap file on an encrypted partition. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
