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minus-squareInfiltrated_ad8271@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months ago Hibernation into swap files backed by Btrfs are now supported. So, with btrfs on ssd, is there any use case for a swap partition?
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI think what they mean is that you can just make a swap FILE instead, which you can grow and shrink as needed. No need to mess with partitioning.
minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoSwap is not “disk RAM”.
minus-squarefalsem@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory What would you describe it as? With virtual memory it pretty much functions that way, no?
minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agohttps://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html
So, with btrfs on ssd, is there any use case for a swap partition?
Use case is not having enough RAM?
I think what they mean is that you can just make a swap FILE instead, which you can grow and shrink as needed. No need to mess with partitioning.
Swap is not “disk RAM”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory
What would you describe it as? With virtual memory it pretty much functions that way, no?
https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html