Hi, the patch which removes the max swap file size logic from dphys-swapfile will be removed with the next upload of dphys-swapfile to Debian because it is harmful and mostly unnecessary:
a) Without that patch dphys-swapfile would not have gone havoc as reported in http://bugs.debian.org/564466 b) The maximum swap file size is configurable in /etc/dphys-swapfile. c) The patch removed a useful feature (configurable max swap file size). Nevertheless I will ensure that there is no limit to the swap file size if MAXSWAP (or maybe CONF_MAXSWAP) is set to the empty string or zero in "/etc/dphys-swapfile". I'll also add information about the possibility to configure the max swap size as well as the factor in "/etc/dphys-swapfile" to the man page and will suggest to the upstream author to make both officially configurable (i.e. starting with "CONF_"). Regards, Axel (upcoming maintainer of dphys-swapfile in Debian) -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
