Hi Linus, On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds <torva...@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 -- ge...@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