Re: SWAPGEN

[Adam Thornton]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN  
Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR) wrote:

Hi

I am using SWAPGEN to define by z/Linux VDISKS I also want to define  
a real disk for swap. My question is can I use SWAPGEN to define a  
swap on real DASD? If you have an example of the control card syntax  
to accomplish this that would be great?

Why bother?

Since real DASD is persistent, once you make a swap disk in Linux the  
first time, you just keep it around.  The reason for SWAPGEN is that  
VDISK goes away on logout, and it was a pain to modify the boot  
process to add the swap signature before a swapon -a is done.

Adam