On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:13:13PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > > Is there any way to get swap enabled earlier for netbooting? I looked at
> > > the rc.d scripts, and swap2 enables swap on network devices, but it gets
> > > run far too late to be useful.
> > 	A quick kludge would be to change swap2's PROVIDE/REQUIRE lines
> > 	to:
> >
> > # PROVIDE: nonlocalswap localswap
> > # REQUIRE: disks
>
> Hmmm. Haven't tried that, but I might do tonight.
>
> > 	What might make more sense would be to adjust swap1 to determine
> > 	if the root filesystem was nfs mounted, and swap on everything
> > 	if so...
>
> How about swap1 enabling swap to files that are accessible? If you're booting
> diskless, you'll probably be swapping to a file in the root directory (this
> is what I've been doing, and what the diskless HOWTO on the website tells
> people to do), so swap1 could enable swapping to that.

	It would probably make sense to have another option to swapctl
	that would fail silently if the specified files were not found.

	swap1 would set the option, swap2 would not. That would allow
	the right thing to happen on diskless boxes, plus also allow
	people to put swap on 'noncritical' filesystems. Any thoughts
	for what letter to use? :)


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