broken? (was Re: [Lilux-help] share a swap partition)

[Serge Marelli]

Which one is broken ? :-))



On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 16:39, Mike Pressel wrote:
> I have 3 different installations on my system (production, test, and 
> broken...).  All are using the same swap partition.  I have kernels 2.4.20, 
> 2.4.24 and 2.6.6 (I think that's right).  
> 
> But, at least in theory, the swap partition doesn't care about the Kernel that 
> you are using.  Or rather the kernel doesn't care about the other kernels 
> that may have used the swap partition.  Think of it as volatile memory.
> 
> Mike
> 


-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Serge Marelli, Luxembourg
  E-mail : serge.marelli at linux.lu
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 LiLux, Luxembourg LUG : http://www.linux.lu/
 Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation  http://swpat.ffii.org/