Re: swap-on-raidframe vs raidctl -P

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

On Jan 22,  9:50pm, bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: swap-on-raidframe vs raidctl -P

| On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:38:00PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > I am working on a patch that unconfigures swap on shutdown. I am having
| > some trouble with it, because of the state of flux that vnode reference
| > counting is in, but I hope to commit it as soon as it works.
| 
| Couldn't raidframe just register a shutdown hook (or whatever it's called now)
| that would forcibly close devices ? I guess at the time shutdown hooks
| are run, filesystems have already been unmounted, isn't it ?
| shutdown hooks have to be run before interrupts are disabled though, I'm
| not sure it's the case.

Is there something wrong with unconfiguring swap all the time, like we unmount
fs's all the time?

christos