Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0100 | Subject | Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag |
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Hi Linus,
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > And, as far as I know, all the normal distributions set things up with > swap partitions, not files, because honestly, swapfiles tend to be > slower and have various other complexity issues.
Looks like this has changed in at least Ubuntu: my desktop machine, which got Ubuntu 18.04LTS during initial installation, is using a (small) swapfile instead of a swap partition.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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