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Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

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Hey,

Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote on 21/08/2024 at 01:34:32+0200:

> (Please d̲o̲ Cc me on replies, I don’t subscribe to this list. Thanks!)
>
> Hi,
>
> this is a bit curious problem:
>
> I have a setup with swap devices on dmcrypt:
>
> $ cat /etc/crypttab
> # <target name> <source device>         <key file>      <options>
> crtpv           LABEL=fooclvm           none            discard,luks,initramfs
> cswp1           /dev/vg-foo/lv-swp1     /dev/random     discard,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,plain,swap
> cswp2           /dev/vg-foo/lv-swp2     /dev/random     discard,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,plain,swap
>
> In a cronjob, I basically do swapoff && cryptdisks_stop && \
> cryptdisks_start && swapon for both swaps individually to throw away
> the old encryption key regularily (but not too frequently).

Ooc, what do you expect to actually gain from this setup?

Apart from that, I had read that discard does a bad job and prople
should use a fstrim timer and drop discard options from mount points.

Bests,

-- 
PEB

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