On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 7:43:32 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > > It increases SSD wear and decreases privacy by writing temporary data to > disk (no bueno!), I believe an option should be provided in the > installer for this. > > Developers thoughts? Would you accept a patch for this? >
As a temporary solution, you could place the SWAP at the far end of the drive, make it as small as possible so hardly nothing gets written to it, and then on-top of that implement the solution Peter Todd suggested, to be certain. If it tears on the SSD, then it will only happen to those same blocks all the time. Even if you re-install, just reconnect to the old SWAP, or re-make with same size/location at the end of the drive again. Even if blocks are destroyed here, it won't really matter, since you dedicated that tiny area at the end of the disk for this purpose, presumably until the day you throw it out due to old age. It's not as beautiful as a solution to simply just skip it, but its practical solution here and now at least. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/4c0ff1fc-5de9-47d2-92e5-5bb20bd4d1d0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
