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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Andrew Morton wrote:

>That got stamped out.  swapon will fail if the file isn't fully
>instantiated on disk:
>
>
>static int setup_swap_extents(struct swap_info_struct *sis)
>{
>	...
>                        block = bmap(inode, probe_block + block_in_page);
>                        if (block == 0)
>                                goto bad_bmap;
>	...
>
>bad_bmap:
>        printk(KERN_ERR "swapon: swapfile has holes\n");
>        ret = -EINVAL;
>}
>  
>

I am in further awe of you.

    Jeff





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