Re: Creating swap based ramdisks from rc.initdiskless by default

From: Igor Mozolevsky <igor_at_hybrid-lab.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:42:33 +0000
2009/1/22 Attila Nagy <bra_at_fsn.hu>:
> Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>>
>> 2009/1/22 Attila Nagy <bra_at_fsn.hu>:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So the question is: what is the rationale behind creating malloc backed
>>> disks by default, instead of swap-backed ones?
>>>
>>
>> Yes --- booting from DoC/CDROM/PXE with no HDD on the node...
>>
>
> Did you read my e-mail?

Yes, but why would you have swap enabled in the kernel on a system
that cannot possibly swap?

Cheers,
Igor :-)
Received on Thu Jan 22 2009 - 14:42:35 UTC

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