Activating swap partitions

[Mariusz Mazur]

On wtorek 07 grudzień 2004 17:53, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> > Is there any particular reason to turn on swap space before mounting
> > other
>
> Yes. For low memory systems it is important to turn on swap as early as
> possible.
>
> > filesystems? IMO it would be better to call swapon after mounting at
> > least all local filesystems since swap can be put on one of them. BTW,
> > would it be reasonable to put swap space on remote filesystem?
>
> There should be the second attempt then.

There is. Iirc I've even made a patch for the second swapon to report itself. 
Or sth like that.

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