On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, Karel Zak wrote: > > > what about to add "-r" (or so..) swapon option to enable automatic > > swap area reinitialization after pagesize change? It means disable > > the feature by default. > > How many bad pages are usually there? Usually 0. Perhaps, if we were able to survey all machines, we'd find the answer is always 0: I've not heard of it being used, and normally nowadays the disk would be handling it; but it is allowed for in the header structure, and respected by the kernel. > I think it makes more sense to disable the reinit with an option and > leave it enabled per default. I disagree: that changes the behaviour of a standard utility in an unexpected way. > And make the thing more robust as well. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
