Re: Specify swap device priority in fstab?

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 12:28:45 -0400, Brad Spencer wrote:

> Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 06:38:04 -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >
> >> Yup, that works, even when using ``sw,dp,priority=100'' (ie, the
> >> dp portion can intervene and it still works).
> >> 
> >> Thanks - the obvious answer is the hardest to find!
> >
> > A sign that fstab(5) could use some clarifications. :) One can sort of
> > make the necessary inferences, but explicit text (and examples) are
> > better.
[...]
> While it may not be the most obvious, the required information is
> already in swapctl(8) (at least in -current) as far as I can tell.

Exegetical exercises are nice, but perhaps we should consider the
target audience of man pages to be, say, a tired, sleep-deprived admin
trying to fix a system at 3am :) Abundant cross-references are
helpful, even if hard(er) to maintain.

-uwe