On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
This is basically the loop above, made complex by the fact that we do
not want to have separate partition for snapshot; we just want to
reuse free space in swap partition.
with the size of drives today is it really that bad to require a seperate
partition for this?
I also don't like the idea of storing this in the swap partition for a couple of
reasons.
1. on many modern linux systems the swap partition is not large enough.
for example, on my boxes with 16G or ram I only allocate 2G of swap space
2. it's too easy for other things to stomp on your swap partition.
for example: booting from a live CD that finds and uses swap partitions
if you are needing space for your freeze, allocate it in an unabigous way, not
by re-useing an existing partition.
David Lang
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