Support Swapfiles at Installation
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:-Dustin
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Rick Clark
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Not started
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Dustin Kirkland
Related branches
Related bugs
| Bug #82351: support for swap files | Confirmed |
| Bug #83325: add support for software suspend with swap files | Confirmed |
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Discussion Points:
* (At least) the 3rd UDS where this has been discussed... What are the blockers?
* time/resource to do it?
* hibernation/resume?
* Originally, I was thinking about offering swap files as an option, in addition to swap partitions; does this make sense? Would it be better to just default to swap files now, and allow for swap partitions in manual partitioning schemes?
* What about GUI/command-line utilities for management of swap files?
* a slider to dynamically adjust the size
* a checkbox for encryption (see encrypted swap spec)
* Server vs. Desktop installer -- should this be handled any different between the two? (I think not)
-- Dustin Kirkland
One common item is a multiboot setup. If this were implemented, and it would do a mkswap for official swapfiles when activating them, I could share large, contiguous files (e.g. windows PAGEFILE.SYS) among the systems instead of having several large files, one for each OS.
If in the installer, there is a partition going to be mounted, allow the user to select a file. As a post-install, add a swapfile manager where files can be selected, created, or removed.
scott - I'm not touching the installer ;)
