>> There's several advantages to doing it that way, including balancing wear on >> a disk (especially today, with SSDs), as a dedicated swap partition could put >> undue wear on certain areas of disk. > > I thought avoiding this very problem was the purpose of the wear leveling > functions in SSD controllers.
Yeah, it's all block level now. The controller shouldn't care about the purpose of an individual block. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- A/C was the worst thing that ever happened to Washington. -- Harry S Truman