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Subject: Re: panic: swap_pager_isswapped: failed to locate all swap meta
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2004, Chris Laverdure wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance, but what is the point of calling swapoff on
> shutdown anyway? Is it just for testing?

According to Pawel's commit message, it's to ensure that the
underlying partition is marked as clean when the backing store is
g_mirror, for instance.