> That has changed in 2.5. Swapping onto a regular file has no
> disadvantage wrt swapping onto a block device. The kernel does
> not need to allocate any memory at all to get a swapcache page
> onto disk.
>
> Which is interesting. Because swapfiles are much easier to administer,
> and much easier to stripe. Adding, removing and resizing is simplified.
> Distributors of 2.6-based kernels could consider doing away with
> swapdevs altogether.
Well, you can swsusp to partition. You can't swsusp to a file, as that
is very hard to do.
Pavel
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