• 6.8.0-rc3 cannot enable swapfile


    eXtremeSHOK
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    BTRFS on kernel5.x supports swapfiles located on the partition.

     

    The current version is not able to use a swapfile

     

    commands to create:

    cd /mnt/cache
    truncate -s 0 swapfile
    chattr +C swapfile
    fallocate -l 16G swapfile
    chmod 0600 swapfile
    mkswap swapfile
    swapon swapfile
    cat /proc/swaps

    actual:

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    root@whitebox:~# cd /mnt/cache/
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# truncate -s 0 swapfile
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# chattr +C swapfile
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# chattr +C swapfile
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# fallocate -l 16G swapfile
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# chmod 0600 swapfile
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# mkswap swapfile
    Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 16 GiB (17179865088 bytes)
    no label, UUID=c19590a0-0270-4d5d-b96f-b3fa50d93756
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# swapon swapfile
    swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# swapon -a swapfile
    swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
    root@whitebox:/mnt/cache# cat /proc/swaps
    Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority

     




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    Since you didn't post diags I don't know if you have multi-device cache pool (which won't work)... You got this far, keep googling until you figure it out.

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