On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:18:06PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/9/20 1:57 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:43 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On 6/9/20 6:49 AM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > > > > Well, that's really the point. The one you're using is one of the (4? 5?) > > > > > other zram implementations. It seems a bit more straightforward than the > > > > > systemd one for sure. > > > > > > > > The zram-generator is probably more straightforward (with literally > > > > less layers of indirection) than what the zram package provides. I > > > > would assume that a generator is also the more idiomatic (and > > > > efficient) solution as far as systemd is concerned and I wouldn't mind > > > > migrating to that if it looked feature-complete and had decent > > > > documentation. There is no manual page[1], only a slightly confusing > > > > README that hints at simplicity and incompleteness. > > > > > > There's also an example conf file included that has a lot of explanation > > > in it. > > > > I'm aware, but the explanation doesn't tell me anything I couldn't > > infer from the README. > > Ok, but I don't understand what other documentation there could possibly be. > There are only two options to configure and they're both well explained. That's the problem right here. There are more options. compression-algorithm, max-zram-size. You need to read source to know about them. Description of general mechanism is also lacking. The generator creates a service: swap-create@.service, which calls modprobe and mkswap. There is also a .swap unit created and enabled. Have you found those details in documentation? And there's also this: # /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/zram-generator This program requires 1 or 3 arguments Can you guess what the arguments are, without checking source? Documenting this is not much work, I guess couple of hours. It will have to be done before shipping (if Change is accepted) but it's lacking now. -- Tomasz Torcz “God, root, what's the difference?” tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx “God is more forgiving.” _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
