[systemd-devel] [PATCH] swap: introduce Discard property

[Jan Synacek]

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 02:29:05PM +0200, Jan Synacek wrote:
>> Process possible "discard" values from /etc/fstab.
> Hm, wouldn't it be enough to simply pass through the options like with
> mounts, using the Options= option? This might be less work and be more
> flexible.
>
> Zbyszek

Swap options are special in that they're processed and used by the
swapon(8) command. You cannot pass swapon -o <options>, as you can to
ordinary mounts. And how many options for swapon, that at the same time
can be specified in /etc/fstab, do we really care about? I'm not sure.

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Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat