On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:05:14 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:23 -0500 > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know swapon doesn't work on regular files, so to add my swap I > > need to first use losetup to set up /dev/loop0 as my swap device. > > Then swapon /dev/loop0 works. but how can I enable swap on loop0 > > before the initscripts boot (right now I have it done in > > local.start). Don't I need to be able to mount the swap as swap > > right away to resume from it? Or will it be enought to specify the > > location? If not, is there some way to specify loop settings at > > boot time, on the kernel command line? > > Check out userspace suspend (http://suspend.sf.net/). It's not in > portage, but will do what you want since you can resume from an > initrd. In the initrd, you can open a network connection, mount all > that stuff (you never told where that looped file is located, so I > guess it's on r/w NFS) and then resume. It's not implemented at the > moment, I think, but should be easy to add ("remote suspending" is > mentioned as an "easy" possibility). > > -hwh Interesting and helpful, thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
