Re: unconfiguring swap at shutdown

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 30,  6:34pm, erh%nimenees.com@localhost (Eric Haszlakiewicz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: unconfiguring swap at shutdown

| On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 04:33:28PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > 
| > Hello,
| > 
| > The following patch removes swap devices at shutdown. This is useful for
| > example when typing reboot and having a raidframe partition... Comments?
| 
| Can it be done as a shutdown hook per swap dev instead, or does that happen
| too late in the shutdown process?
| 
| It feels like it would be more elegant to have each thing that needs to be
| undone at shutdown be registered in an ordered list, so you could do stuff
| like: mount a raid fs, vnconfig a couple devs using files on the raid, mount
| another raid using those devs, vnconfig a file within that, reboot; 
| and have it all nicely un-do itself.

Perhaps, although in the swap case I have not constructed a situation where
ordering would be a problem, since the swaps are all visible.

christos