On 4/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Summerfield</b> <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>There is no advantage*, with Linux 2.6 kernels, to having a swap<br>partition over having a swap file. Swap files are more flexible, easier<br>to manage. As a Linux Kernel Engineer, you should know that;-)<br><br>* unless you're using suspend to disk, I'm not sure about that.
</blockquote><div><br>That's my title - I'm still working my way into it, and I'm learning as fast as I can.<br><br>Actually, no, I didn't know that. The last kernel I was familiar with (for about six months) was
pre-2.0.<br><br>Does that mean (and this applies to another thread along this line that's also going on around here I think) that we don't need a swap partition at all? Is the swap file automatic, or do we have to specify it (yeah, I know, rtfm, but where is
t.f.m.?).<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>mhr<br></div></div><br>