On Fri, 2020-11-13 at 13:16 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > In principle the location of a swap file’s header may be > determined with the help of appropriate filesystem > driver. Unfortunately, however, it requires the filesystem holding > the swap file to be mounted, and if this filesystem is journaled, > it cannot be mounted during resume from disk. For this reason to > identify a swap file swsusp uses the name of the partition that > holds the file and the offset from the beginning of the partition > at which the swap file’s header is located. For convenience, this > offset is expressed in <PAGE_SIZE> units.
Surely the absolute position of any file in a file system couldn't be relied upon to always be the same? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 20 16:53:08 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
