Bug 987484
Summary: | RFE: Swap size limitation should be designated in man page mkswap | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Michael Hood <mihood> |
Component: | util-linux-ng | Assignee: | Karel Zak <kzak> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 6.6 | CC: | dzhao, harald, hasuzuki, kazuhiro.sota, mihood, pschiffe, psklenar |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature, ManPageChange |
Target Release: | --- | Flags: | mihood:
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Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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Last Closed: | 2016-04-06 09:12:08 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Michael Hood
2013-07-23 13:22:55 UTC
mkswap is owned by util-linux-ng. We follow this formula for swap space calculation during automatic partitioning: https://home.corp.redhat.com/wiki/swap-size-recommendations Not sure if you want to mention that in the mkswap man page. That's question if we want to maintain RHEL/fedora specific patches. The man page mkswap.8 describes kernel limitations and I don't see reason why all our tools are not able to follow kernel and why we have any extra limitation defined by installer. Anyway, I can add something like: The size of the swap partition can be limited by system installer, partitioning tool or another system component although kernel have no such limitation. See distribution specific documentation for more details. Comments? .. or 128GB is RHEL6 *kernel* limit? It is not reproduced on the lvm. Can only reproduce behavior on the physical partition. Maybe a specification of the anaconda. |