[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] sysvinit -12 release, please

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Mon Jan 30 01:41:08 UTC 2006


On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > [Thomas Hood]
> >>   * checkroot.sh: Don't try to enable swap if a swap device is
> >>     /dev/mapper/* or a swapfile (Closes: #346329, #348534) Don't
> >>     check for /dev/md* any more, since this was only necessary for
> >>     Linux pre-2.4.
> > 
> > I believed /dev/md* is also present on some 2.4 configurations.  Are
> > you sure they are not?
> 
> They may still be present but the script was only refraining from enabling swap
> on such devices if the Linux version was pre-2.4.

Well, FWIW, I know for sure that swap in /dev/md is damn fine in 2.4 and later :-)

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