Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:21:47 +0200 From: Stephane Rochoy <stephane.rochoy@stormshield.eu> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: swapon vs GEOM labels Message-ID: <86ttd5rdze.fsf@cthulhu.stephaner.labo.int>
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Hi Hackers, I'm playing with glabel(8) and swapon(8) but found a behavior that is somewhat puzzling. I boot main (b88df1e893c4) with an USB memstick plugged. The memstick is da0 and hold a freebsd-swap partition, da0p1. This partition was given the `swap` label using `glabel label` (i.e., an automatic label, stored somewhere into da0p1, AFAIK). # glabel status Name Status Components label/swap N/A da0p1 Then I give the whole device the `usbmemstick` label using `glabel create` (i.e., a manual label, not stored anywhere). # glabel create usbmemstick da0 # glabel status Name Status Components label/swap N/A da0p1 label/usbmemstick N/A da0 What puzzle me is what happen when I enable swap: # sysctl vm.nswapdev vm.nswapdev: 0 # swapctl -l Device: 1024-blocks Used: # dumpon -l /dev/null # swapon /dev/label/usbmemstickp1 # glabel status Name Status Components label/usbmemstick N/A da0 # swapoff /dev/label/usbmemstickp1 # glabel status Name Status Components label/usbmemstick N/A da0 label/swap N/A label/usbmemstickp1 While swap is enabled, the `swap` label is no longer available. It comes back when swap is disabled. Note that I also tried to enable swap using the automatic label (i.e., `swap`). In such a case this is the `usbmemstick` label that vanish. And the label is even not restored on `swapoff`. Is it the expected behavior? Am I doing something wrong? Regards, -- St=C3=A9phane Rochoy O: Stormshield
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