Hi Linus,
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> 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
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