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Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp



On Monday 11 June 2012 16:01:10 Aneurin Price wrote:
> On 10 June 2012 19:31, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >> swap file on / [...] is
> >> really the direction that we should be going
> > 
> > NO !
> > 
> > Does this need to be explained? :/

Hi,

> Not quite sure what you're objecting to. If you are against the use of
> swap files rather than swap partitions then yes, it does need to be
> explained, because as far as I am aware a swap file is the better
> choice in virtually all situations (and is what I've been using
> exclusively since Linux 2.6 removed the downsides).

data point: a swap file would not work with btrfs [1].

[1]https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Does_btrfs_support_swap_files.3F

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