pagefile instead of swap

On 10/23/05, Christian Bjälevik <nafallo at magicalforest.se> wrote:
> sön 2005-10-23 klockan 15:17 +0200 skrev MadMan2k:
> > Wouldn't it make much more sense to create a page file, which one can
> > move around resize and delete and recreate without having to touch the
> > partition-table. I#m still unsure whether it has a performance impact
> > though...
>
> Actually, we use that partition for hibernation aswell...
>
> Sincerely,
> /Christian


Yes and that assumption makes the hibernation function unusable for
people who don't have a swap partition.

I already made a bug about that where I even commented that a swap
file might be a good solution:

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17277
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Paul M Edwards