From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264354AbTDXA2k (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:28:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264355AbTDXA2j (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:28:39 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.232] ([12.47.58.232]:15297 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264354AbTDXA2i (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:28:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:38:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: ncunningham@clear.net.nz, cat@zip.com.au, pavel@ucw.cz, mbligh@aracnet.com, gigerstyle@gmx.ch, geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP Message-Id: <20030423173837.08202f0b.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030423172628.0f71ab64.rddunlap@osdl.org> References: <1051136725.4439.5.camel@laptop-linux> <1584040000.1051140524@flay> <20030423235820.GB32577@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20030423170759.2b4e6294.akpm@digeo.com> <20030424001733.GB678@zip.com.au> <1051143408.4305.15.camel@laptop-linux> <20030423172628.0f71ab64.rddunlap@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Apr 2003 00:40:41.0309 (UTC) FILETIME=[21FB30D0:01C309FA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Randy.Dunlap" wrote: > > That may be simple for you, but for lots of users, adding a partition > (to a ususally full disk drive) isn't simple. It means backups, > shrink a filesystem, shrink a partition, add a partition, and run > mkswap on it. Yes, the latter 2 are simple, but the former ones > are not. Yeah. swsusp is pretty much the only reason why you would want to have a swap partition at all in a 2.5/2.6 kernel.