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

[Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti <black.fledermaus@arcor.de> 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...