[systemd-devel] Fwd: System fails to create zram on startup, but I can do so manually

[Michal Koutný]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 02:58:57PM GMT, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> I don't think we can change this now, because this was documented
> behaviour and people may have used something like '4k' to get 4000 MB.

If you're referring to 
ae46c78 ("Obsolete zram-fraction and max-zram-size in favour of new, arbitrary-expression, zram-size"
it also quite unfortunately removed units from the manpage.
So, technically speaking behavior of 4k was undocumented.

> I think the nice backwards-compatible solution would
> be to add a new setting, e.g. disk-size that is evaluated as bytes,
> and soft-deprecate zram-size.

Please Cc me (Werkov) on any related PR.

Thanks,
Michal
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