On Sunday, 12 November 2006 01:28, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On 11/12/06, Luca Tettamanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But AFAICS the offset is only needed for swap_type_of(); instead using
> > the extents it may be possible to use somehow the 'struct file'
> > (f_path? sounds interesting :D) for swapfiles.
>
> Ok, I think you can find the swapfile by matching
> swap_file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_ino
> It's possible to overload the 'offset' passed to
> SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA: for swap partitions is the offset of the first
> swap extent, for swap files it's the inode numer. Too ugly?
The problem is to tell _resume_ where the suspend snapshot data are,
and the only way to do this is to use an offset with respect to the beginning
of the real device.
Greetings,
Rafael
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