Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> 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.
You can always use swap files if you don't like swap partitions...
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