Re: scary ext2 filesystem question

Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:31:21 -0500


Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Sounds like it might be an idea to reserve part of a specified swap
> partition for this purpose - but that would need some serious tweaking
> to the mm subsystem to get right, so probably shouldn't be considered
> as more than a wild idea at a brainstorming session...

Or just work out some reasonable behavior valid across a wide variety
of reboot patterns, and recommend in documentation that it be supported.

Then again, at some point you're going to have to punt, but I suppose
different people will have different opinions on where that point should
be.

-- 
Raul

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