[PATCH 5/5] zram: Set initial disksize to some default value

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Sep 9 23:12:09 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:01:04PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Currently, we set initial disksize as 0, which forces
> user to write some value to corresponding zram device's
> sysfs node, before the device can be used. Now, we avoid
> this step by providing some default size initially.
> 
> To change the disksize, user must:
>  - Reset disk.
> 	Ex: echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/reset
> (NOTE: disksize is set to the default value after reset)
> 
>  - Set new disksize.
> 	Ex: echo $((256*1024*1024)) > /sys/block/zram0/disksize

So, what tools just broke with this change?

And where is the sysfs file documentation change that should go along
with this?

greg k-h



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