FLASH disk as swap

[Stephen]

I have run Linux desktops without swap and most of the time it was
just fine (it had a large amount of ram so i don't think it cared.

but what i understood of the issue now given the large amount of cheap
ram swap is generally not needed unless a program needs it for a
graceful moment

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Marco Savo wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have a *simple* question:
>> it is possible use a FLASH drive as SWAP?
>
> Probably, but why would you want to?  For a normal desktop or server, I see
> a lot of disadvantages and no advantages over putting swap on a regular HDD.
>  Post up your specific reason for being interested in the question, and we
> can probably provide better advice.  If you really just want to know 'can it
> be done', I think the answer is "yes, but don't do it".
>
>> and which is the best filesistem to use then?
>> (UBIFS? EXT4?...)
>
> A swap partition is its own kind thing.  It doesn't have a normal
> filesystem.
>
> alex
>
>
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