On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 03:17:52AM +0300, Maksim Melnikau wrote:
> Linux kernel now have interesting zram feature, which I would like to
hmm... why this all is not completely hidden in kernel memory
management? Why we need re-route by special device?
Is it designed for anything other than swaparea?
> initialize via fstab. May be you find it interesting, and this feature
> will be implemented:
>
> It will be nice, add to fstab option "mkswap before swapon", which
> could be used for auto-initialization swap in zram.
swapon(8) already contains swap area reinitialization code (exec
mkswap), it's used for --fixpgsz.
Maybe we can add "mkswap" fstab and command line option for swapon.
Anyway, mkswap is a nice and quick way how to lost data if you make a
typo in your configuration.
Karel
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