On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 05:38:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > That may be simple for you, but for lots of users, adding a partition
> > (to a ususally full disk drive) isn't simple. It means backups,
> > shrink a filesystem, shrink a partition, add a partition, and run
> > mkswap on it. Yes, the latter 2 are simple, but the former ones
> > are not.
>
> Yeah. swsusp is pretty much the only reason why you would want to have a
> swap partition at all in a 2.5/2.6 kernel.
Is there really no difference any longer in terms of speed?
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