> e.g. A swap file on an encrypted partition.
I am already using it in an encrypted partition. It does not give any problems.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:29 PM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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