> Yea! You are finally on the same wavelength as me, hence my reason
> for starting this thread on linux-kernel :-)
Okay, why didn't you say so from the very beginning? :-)
> How about changing sys_swapoff() too? Perhaps adding a flags parameter
> like sys_swapon() already has?
No, I don't think that would be necessary. It can be done safely in
userspace.
The only reason I can think of for not changing swapoff -a is consistency:
since swapon -a turns on all swap devices/files in /etc/fstab, swapoff
should do the opposite. On the other hand, umount -a is already
inconsistent with mount -a (reading from mtab, as opposed to fstab), so..
Right now I'm working on the swapon/swapoff program from the mount
package to make it use /proc/swapareas.
> Note: I am prepared to make these changes myself.
Don't bother, I already have them in my running kernel. :-)
moisil:~# cat /proc/swapareas
Filename Type Size
/swapfile file 4092
/dev/hda1 partition 34236
It works fine for me. I'll make the changes available as soon as I'm done
with the userspace swapoff.
Ionut
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