From: Stephen <[email protected]> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Alex Dean <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Marco Savo wrote: >>> it is possible use a FLASH drive as SWAP? >> Probably, but why would you want to?
Might as well ask "Why would you want to make a softRAID-5 out of a bunch of USB floppy disks"? "Because it's there" is a perfectly valid answer. >> A swap partition is its own kind thing. It doesn't have a normal >> filesystem. Since all disks are supposed to be SCSI now, I don't know that you'd want to waste one of your 15 partitions on a swap partition. Though I suppose you could put swap on an LV or on a file.... > I have run Linux desktops without swap and most of the time it was > just fine. given the large amount of cheap ram swap is generally > not needed unless a program needs it for a graceful moment Swap is much less useful than it once was. However, when you need it, you REALLY need it, or you have some sort of runaway Java app. So I usually do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512 && mkswap /swapfile" just so there's something there in case of stupidity. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
