On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 21:27 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
I'm not an expert on storage, so take my reply with a large pinch
of salt, but
isn't one of the main reasons for using a swap partition to avoid file
fragmentation? Admittedly, modern SSD-based systems probably don't have much to
worry about here, but there are likely still a LOT of spinning-rust installs out
there that would have to worry about fragmentation.
Enh. Swap files aren't allowed to have holes and we'd be creating them
at install time, so practically speaking they're not fragmented either.
- ajax