Bug#536796: use swap files on boot up

[Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org>]

Package: live-initramfs
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

To many people, Debian-Live base distros are one-time-quick-fix
things, but to me, it is a solution to use my Linux on boxes otherwise
impossible.

More often than not, I'm faced with boxes that have little ram, and
impossible to have the luxury to create a swap partition. So swap
files that can be picked on boot up is most valuable. Since nowadays
Linux utilizes swap files as efficient as swap partition, using
flexible swap files are more encouraged than the fixed swap partition.

Use swap files on boot up is a small fix with huge advantages.

Thanks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-grml64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash