On 25/06/07, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rather than worrying about creating a slice just for swap, can we reuse > the Linux swap partition if one already exists, or use a full partition > for swap if not? I know Moinak/Belenix has done some work here, and > it looks like it works too (though it's labeled "experimental" in 0.6). > Partitions are scarce resources at the moment, since we don't have extended partition support. Do Linux users typically use a primary partition for swap? I never did when I was. If not, then we need the enhanced disk drivers to support extended partitions before using a full partition would be a useful idea, it seems. Getting swap into the ZFS pool seems likely to happen as quickly as that will, IMHO, and theoretically gets us out of requiring static space allocations. No reason we couldn't do both, I suppose, but I'd rather someone interested put their efforts into the ZFS direction than this.
For a system where a GNU/Linux distribution is the only thing installed, yes, there was typically a separate primary partition. However, it has been a long time since I had a GNU/Linux distribution in a primary partition. Most GNU/Linux users I know (desktop users anyway) almost always have two primary partitions: one for Windows, and one for the umpteen GNU/Linux distributions they boot from. I typically have at least two GNU/Linux distributions installed inside an extended partition for testing the software ports I maintain and have them share the same logical partition for swap inside the extended partition. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
