swap-file BUG: two for the price of one!

Rolf Fokkens (rolf@flits102-126.flits.rug.nl)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:20:42 +0200

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After moving to 2.1.125 / 2.1.126 there is something strange with the
swap-file support. After booting Redhat 5.1 /proc/swaps shows this:

Filename Type Size Used Priority
/var/swap/swap1 file 65532 0 -1
/var/swap/swap1 file 65532 0 -2

And "free" also tries to make me think I have 128MB of swapspace.

Apparently every time a "swapon -a" is done, the same file(s) is/are
added again and again.

This only happens with swap FILES, not with swap PARTITIONS.

It seems buggy to me.

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