Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: swap on zram

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On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 11:08 -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
> On Friday, June 5, 2020 10:49:52 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:35 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
> > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 04.06.2020 22:30, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Swap is useful, except when it's slow. zram is a RAM drive that
> > > > uses
> > > > compression. Create a swap-on-zram during start-up. And no
> > > > longer use
> > > > swap partitions by default.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm strongly against this, because zram will replace disk swap
> > > and
> > > disable hibernation, which is very useful on laptops.
> > 
> > 
> > Already discussed in the 'support hibernation' thread.
> > 
> > Most laptops today have UEFI Secure Boot enabled by default and
> > therefore hibernation isn't possible. And even when the laptop
> > doesn't
> > have Secure Boot enabled, there's a forest of bugs. It works for
> > some
> > people and not others. It was working for me on one laptop in
> > February, consistently doesn't work now and I haven't gotten a
> > reply
> > yet from upstream about the problem.
> 
> It may be true that most laptops have "Secure Boot" enabled, but not
> those 
> running Fedora. We don't have numbers to support that claim, and most
> devices 
> require "Secure Boot" to be disabled,  or to have the mode changed so
> that it 
> accepts new keys, to install Fedora.

They don't require disablement. Fedora shim loader is signed by
Microsoft that means it is installed in most (all?) laptops.

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