• Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
    232·
    11 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?

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
        4·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yep. In fact my comment seemed so clear to me that I assumed it was some kind of joke, but looking at the votes, maybe swapfiles aren’t as well known as I thought.

    • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Do you mean that you don’t have to find the LBA of the extents of your swap file, and put that into a kernel argument anymore?

      Cuz that is a nasty, skanky hack.

      • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’ve never heard of that, it’s beyond me. So it’s an increased risk when tweaking the kernel? As an average home user it’s all right?