[SLL] Etch install: "waiting for root file system" post-inst with I2O RAID

Glenn Stone technoshaman at liawol.org
Tue Aug 21 21:38:11 PDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Rob Smith wrote:
>Honestly, I'm a big fan of swapfiles rather then swap partitions.
>They're just as fast as a partition (internal kernel mapping directly
>to the drive, so there's no difference at all) and can be resized as
>needed without drive mucking.

Really?  When did that change?  I'd always thought that it had to map swapfs
to whatever filesystem you were running on, and that slowed it down... 

Interesting.  How would one set that up during an install?  

-- Glenn



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