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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hi Linus,

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> And, as far as I know, all the normal distributions set things up with
> swap partitions, not files, because honestly, swapfiles tend to be
> slower and have various other complexity issues.

Looks like this has changed in at least Ubuntu: my desktop machine,
which got Ubuntu 18.04LTS during initial installation, is using a (small)
swapfile instead of a swap partition.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds