(Moved to questions from -security, with a BCC of this question to
-security. Those on -security who want to answer should post their
reponse to questions, and then we're done with this thread in
-security.)

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Andrew J Caines wrote:

> This doesn't obviously have a security angle, so feel free to take it to
> -questions (with CC, please).
>
> > > What makes you uncomfortable?
> > In the lines you quoted ? Nothing.
>
> Ok.
>
> > Having my swap partition mounted on a memory file system makes me
> > uncomfortable
>
> I think it's a bit misleading to say that the "swap partition" is mounted.
> I think it more accurate to say that the storage device which backs this
> filesystem is the system's VM. The filesystem simply provides the
> semantics for the I/O.
>
> What about this makes you uncomfortable?

    Uhh, what happens when your machine panics? With a VM-backed
swap, savecore can't grab the crash dump; therefore, you can't get a
traceback.

-- 
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer                   (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
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