On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:08:37PM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> > thinking of this easy solution: just use free disk space in any
> > mounted file system as swap over flow. So if you run out, create
> > /lost+found/swap-overflow, do a mkswap on it, and start allocating
> > swap pages out of there. What's the problem with that?
>
> Well shoot, if you happen to have all of that space laying around, why not
> just feed it to the VM system in the first place instead of having Linux
> run around desperately for swap space when something shitlike hits the
> fan? :)
For one, you could do away with swap partitions if you did this. Kinda
nice to lose those things.
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