[parted-devel] [PATCH] libparted/dasd: improve lvm/raid flag handling for DASD-CDL

Wang Dong dongdwdw at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sun May 28 02:25:58 UTC 2017



On 5/26/2017 11:26 PM, Phil Susi wrote:
> On 5/26/2017 4:04 AM, Sebastian Parschauer wrote:
>> Exactly. It is also not right that nobody is using the swap flag. YaST
>> is using it and intends to use it for DASDs as well with SLE15.
> And what does it do with it and why bother?  If it contains a swap
> filesystem, then it's swap... what need do you have for the partition
> table to provide duplicate information?
Hi,
    But as I found, when a partition is labelled with swap flag without 
swap filesystem, can not be
used as swap partition, by which i mean this partition can not be opened 
with command *swapon.

*Could i just say that this swap file system is the key point? **If so,  
the swap flag will depend on the
swap file system. If the swap system exits, then let's open this flag, 
if not, just close it.*
*

-- 
Best regards.

Wang Dong

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