On 06/07/2017 09:21 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Reddit, someone asked me if there are plans to switch to swap files >> (as Ubuntu has) rather than making a partition by default. Do we have >> any such plans? It seems like a small manageability benefit with not >> much downside (other than, of course, the cost of changing things). > > I'm not aware of any such plans, but I was wondering the same thing... are there > any disadvantages to making this switch? Seems like a good idea. > I'm not an expert on storage, so take my reply with a large pinch of salt, but isn't one of the main reasons for using a swap partition to avoid file fragmentation? Admittedly, modern SSD-based systems probably don't have much to worry about here, but there are likely still a LOT of spinning-rust installs out there that would have to worry about fragmentation.
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