Using a swap file
Hiroki Sato
hrs at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 31 03:05:40 UTC 2013
Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote
in <CANt7McGTBwintkopk=hEvo5D4BvsyiFwL_-q9uzna3PwBmm1Rg at mail.gmail.com>:
ro> But I have no 'late' option in my /etc/fstab:
ro>
ro> root at saturn:~ # cat /etc/fstab
ro> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
ro> /dev/ada0s2a / ufs rw 1 1
ro> md none swap sw,file=/swapfile 0 0
ro>
ro> Then why 'swapon -a' (without -L) doesn't work? It's either buggy or confusing.
After r255265 the option file= implies late. It is because a
file-backed swap space likely to be on a mounted filesystem after the
"swap" line.
I realized that that assumption was odd and confusing as you pointed
out. The user should specify a swap line with file= after the mount
entry, and there is no problem with it. I will fix it.
-- Hiroki
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