Re: RFC: Remove swap file support

Fabbione (fabbione@fabbione.net)
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:27:20 +0200


HI Jeff,
why you think people are still not using it????
I still do on most of my systems...

Fabbione

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Since you can make any file into a block device using loop,
> is there any value to supporting swap files in 2.5?
>
> swap files seem like a special case that is no longer necessary...
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