Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

[Lisi Reisz]

On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:50:31 basti wrote:
> so why you don't use this?

Why doesn't who use it?

Lisi

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

[Till Smejkal]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2016, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti  wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap
> > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which
> > write about 6-7 MB/s).
> >
> > As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use this?
> >
> > fallocate is also part of the util-linux package which essential in debian.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > basti
> >
> > Why don't we use it? We don't use it because we are a user group, not
> application developers. The clue was in the group name...

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

[Mark Fletcher]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap
> file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which
> write about 6-7 MB/s).
>
> As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use this?
>
> fallocate is also part of the util-linux package which essential in debian.
>
> Best Regards,
> basti
>
> Why don't we use it? We don't use it because we are a user group, not
application developers. The clue was in the group name...