Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 2/13/19 1:28 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:14:36PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > A swap partition is faster than a swap file.
>
> Has something changed in this regard since kernel version 2.6 then?
>
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.0/1690.html

I do not follow Linux kernel development.  Apparently, people wanted 
faster swap files badly enough to implement optimizations in kernel 2.6. 
 I can only wonder how much complexity and KLOC are required (overall 
and per file system), if all Linux file systems support it, and are 
there benchmarks?


David