Re: git: installer: Utilize dumpon(8) and swapoff(8) to turn off dump and swap.

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/23/2010 11:43, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> commit 9687cd2753d34cd91571932ad50ae1ba2378a7cb
> Author: Sascha Wildner<saw@online.de>
> Date:   Thu Sep 23 11:43:06 2010 +0200
>
>      installer: Utilize dumpon(8) and swapoff(8) to turn off dump and swap.
>
>      Previously, the installer would block further installation attempts
>      once a swap was mounted. This was very inconvenient, e.g. when trying
>      to do multiple installs in one session.
>
>      It also never issued a 'dumpon off' causing dumping to be enabled
>      until rebooting. This caused issues upon reboot when a removable disk
>      (eSATA, for example) was unplugged before the reboot.
>
>      Now that we have swapoff(8), fix all these issues by turning off
>      dumping and swapping once the installation is completed (after
>      unmounting). Also, do this in a number of other places (where we
>      previously warned) to make sure it all gets deactivated again should
>      the user have cancelled a previous installation.

Note that the "panic when dumping is still active but the drive was 
unplugged" thing is still a real issue, even though the installer now no 
longer tickles it.

But on a normal system, the user can still get into this situation by 
manually producing it.

Sascha