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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?
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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use
> swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and
> substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe.
>
> Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe
> depending on which filesystem you use, or something? =A0Security holes?
> Any horror stories out there?

I think a swapfile cannot be used for suspend-to-disk. When creating a
swap file you should take care to ensure it is not fragmented.
Otherwise, performance should be equal between swap partition or swap
file under normal circumstances, as far as I know.