Bug#844713: ITP: partman-swapfile -- add support for creating swapfiles

[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>]

On 21 November 2016 at 17:54, Jay Wren <jrwren@xmtp.net> wrote:
>
> I am happy that swap partitions are finally going away.
>

.... Note, no such decisions made for Debian. Debian still uses swap
partitions by default, and I don't see that changing for the upcoming
release.
I'm simply working on an alternative to use swapfiles. There are still
limitations in swapfile usage - e.g. not available on btrfs & zfs.

> Is there any reason to do all of the above rather than install swapspace?
>

For example, on low memory systems swapfile created by
partman-swapfile is activated before debootstrap is run, and thus swap
is available for use much earlier in the install process. Which may be
required to complete debootstrap.

Also I don't like how swapspace package is implemented :-P

And I prefer having an ability to tune dynamic seeding via d-i pressed
infrastructure on the per installation basis.

> http://pqxx.org/development/swapspace
>
> I’ve manually partitions with no swap and installed swapspace after install
> for years with great success.
>
> Thanks,
> —
> Jay
>

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.