On Jun 16, 2002 23:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This patch changes the swap I/O handling. The objectives are:
>
> At swapon time (for an S_ISBLK swapfile), we install a single swap extent
> which describes the entire device.
>
> + inode = sis->swap_file->f_dentry->d_inode;
> + if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
> + ret = add_swap_extent(sis, 0, sis->max, 0);
> + goto done;
> + }
I believe it is possible to have blocks marked bad in the swap header,
even for a block device, so this will try to use those bad blocks.
Cheers, Andreas
-- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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