[buug] Using swap on an SSD...or not.

Jon McClintock jammer at weak.org
Mon Sep 28 14:14:51 PDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:33:46AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Jon McClintock (jammer at weak.org):
> 
> > Yes. But it's far easier to eject the SDHC card and put in a new one
> > than to disassemble the device, (potentially) desolder the SSD, 
> > install a new one, and then reassemble the device...
> 
> Easier still is to just make sure you have enough RAM to not need swap
> on flash media.  ;->

Apparently there's also a dependency on a swap partition to enable 
hibernation.

-Jon
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