Re: swap file instead of partition?

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On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 21:27 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

> 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.

Enh. Swap files aren't allowed to have holes and we'd be creating them
at install time, so practically speaking they're not fragmented either.

- ajax
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