On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 14:25 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 4/17/20 2:11 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
> > For the vg/offset to work the file must be contiguous (only 1
> > section/extent in the file).   I don't see that mentioned in
> > archlinux.
> 
> I tried to find out the on-disk format for swap files, but wasn't able 
> to.  But from the doc at 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.html

That does give some interesting insights. In particular, it explains
why the file has to be treated specially (because during resume, the
filesystem may not be mounted, which is what I was trying to get at
earlier). This clears up some confusion for me at least.

poc
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