Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:32:17 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: swapoff weird |
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Hi!
> >[David Feuer] > > > Perhaps it would be good to put a check in unlink to make sure that > > > this is not the last link to a swapfile. > > > >Much better to add code to /sbin/swapon and /sbin/swapoff to set and > >clear immutable bit. Sure it only works on ext2 but how far do you > >want to take this thing? > > In a private email, linux@horizon.com wrote: > > >No; we should add some more magic-symlink /proc entries, like > >/proc/<pid>/fd/<n> for swap files. Then they can be accessed > >by swapoff even if they're deleted. > > Seems like a good idea to me...
We could make them opened by kswapd.
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