Bug 124434
| Summary: | Install does not support swap file configuration | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steve <kkbbf81jd6> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | bnocera |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-03-27 22:11:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Running without any swap does have somewhat detrimental effects, hence the warning. Adding support for creating swap files is non-ideal from a UI perspective and thus isn't going to happen in the near to medium term. Reopening as an RFE, following: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2006/03/27/swap-files-vs-swap-partitions There are still reasons not to do swap files (including swsusp, which is even mentioned there :-) and the UI for doing them would still be pretty sub-par |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: On performing a new install I wanted to configure a swap file instead of a swap partition. A swap file is more flexible and convenient to use than a swap partition, since you can reconfigure it later if required, unlike a swap partition which has fixed size determined by the disk partitioning. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.0-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Perform new install. 2.Manually partition disk and do not create a swap partition. 3. Actual Results: A warning is given: "You have not specified a swap partition. " "Although not strictly required in all cases, " "it will significantly improve performance for " "most installations." I think this statement is incorrect for the 2.6 kernel - a system with a swap file should perform just as well as a system with a swap partition. You should also be able to run Linux without a swap file or partition if you wish (and have a reasonable amount of memory). Linux did not install, the system rebooted and reported a grub error. Expected Results: To be given the option to create a swap file (or have a swap file created automatically). Additional info: