On 21 November 2016 at 17:54, Jay Wren <jrw...@xmtp.net> wrote: > > I am happy that swap partitions are finally going away. >
.... Note, no such decisions made for Debian. Debian still uses swap partitions by default, and I don't see that changing for the upcoming release. I'm simply working on an alternative to use swapfiles. There are still limitations in swapfile usage - e.g. not available on btrfs & zfs. > Is there any reason to do all of the above rather than install swapspace? > For example, on low memory systems swapfile created by partman-swapfile is activated before debootstrap is run, and thus swap is available for use much earlier in the install process. Which may be required to complete debootstrap. Also I don't like how swapspace package is implemented :-P And I prefer having an ability to tune dynamic seeding via d-i pressed infrastructure on the per installation basis. > http://pqxx.org/development/swapspace > > I’ve manually partitions with no swap and installed swapspace after install > for years with great success. > > Thanks, > — > Jay > -- Regards, Dimitri.