On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:39:18 +0100 (CET), Jakub Vlasek <www@pilsedu.cz>
said:
> i've found that active swapfile could be deleted, which is
> IMHO very dangerous (set immutable flag on in sys_swapon call?). Also,
> sys_swapon should check whether owner of swapfile is root and is readable
> only to root ( memory readableby anyone? hmm...)
2.0 or 2.1? I've just tried on 2.1.127 and it is working fine: the file
is unlinked but not deleted and the filesystem space remains reserved.
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:40:01 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:
> Unfortunately, there are a few issues with that:
> - it doesn't work on inodeless FSes (msdosfs)
Not true. All filesystems have inodes.
> - you can't swapoff() a deleted file, leaving minor
> fs corruption on reboot (and major corruption on
> umsdos and the like)
That's no different to the normal case of rebooting with a file still
open. At least on ext2, the filesystem will automatically be re-fscked
on boot.
> - since you can't swapoff() the deleted file, you
> can't reclaim the disk space
The fsck will fix things up.
--Stephen
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