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Re: [SLE] Two swap partitions?
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:04:43 -0400
- Message-id: <4302A94B.4000104@xxxxxxxxxx>
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> The contents of the swap file are essentially cleared during the
>> initial boot into multi-user mode. Any leftover garbage from a
>> previous session is ignored.
>
> You mean, the OS doesn't care if any garbage is left-over from a
> previous session but clears (without warning) the contents of the swap
> file, right?
>
Consider it as an extension of memory. What would Linux expect to find
in the memory on reboot? It would consider the memory contents to be
garbage and therefore it should also consider the swap contents to be
garbage.
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> The contents of the swap file are essentially cleared during the
>> initial boot into multi-user mode. Any leftover garbage from a
>> previous session is ignored.
>
> You mean, the OS doesn't care if any garbage is left-over from a
> previous session but clears (without warning) the contents of the swap
> file, right?
>
Consider it as an extension of memory. What would Linux expect to find
in the memory on reboot? It would consider the memory contents to be
garbage and therefore it should also consider the swap contents to be
garbage.
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