any value to supporting swap version 0 and *really* old kernels?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Mar 29 17:58:27 PST 2006


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 5:44 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:

> >Didn't Tito or Bernhard already drop support for v0 in favor of always
> > using v1?  I seem to remember that discussion from right before the
> >1.1.1release.  Perhaps that was a patch waiting for after release to
> >be applied?
>
> Yeah, it was me, fwiw.
>
> V0 defaults to off now, while support for it is still there. I prefer to
> fade this one out extremely slowly. If you don't want it, don't request
> it.
>
> If you're mkswap'ing then you'll (IIRC) get v1 per default on anything
> vaguely recent.

We need a "deprecated" menu...

Rob
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