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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:05:13PM +0100, Steinar Hamre wrote:
> mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>=20
> > On shutdown however we do:
> >=20
> > swap1                   remove swap from block devices
>=20
> Why?  Doing this at shutdown makes no sense to me.
> It *anything* using swap is left, it may be costly, or even harmful.

It is so that the device is closed, so that (for example) raidframe
parity can be marked clean.

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Dan.
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