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On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:39:50 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> The swapfiles service, which was basically a copy of the swap service, |
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> has been removed. If you are only using swap partitions, this change |
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> will not affect you. If you are using swap files, please adjust the |
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> dependencies of the swap service as shown in /etc/conf.d/swap. |
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I found this prose a little vague myself, took me a while to understand |
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its intent. |
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Mostly because the terms "swap partitions" and "swap files" don't have |
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any distinction between the two if you're not consciously aware that |
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you can mount files on arbitrary filesystems formatted as swap and use |
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them like swap, and so, the terminology "swap files" and "swap |
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partitions" get mentally reduced to "are you using swap" in both cases. |
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I would probably re-write it to indicate something along the lines of: |
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"This change only has implications for people who are using |
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swap-formatted files mounted on top of standard Linux filesystems" |
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That way it reads as: |
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"There is a condition to whether or not you should care" and "That |
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condition is using swap-formatted files" -> "I am not using swap |
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formatted files, so this does not apply to me" -> "I can stop reading" |
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Whereas it presently reads as: |
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"The there is a condition to whether or not you should care" and "That |
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condition is you are using swap at all" -> "I am using swap! .... I |
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better read all this very carefully" |
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