btrfs and swap files on SSD's ?

[Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org>]

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Hi folks,

Someone on the OpenMoko community list commented recently about having created 
a swap file on the SD card of their OpenMoko Neo phone and said that they'd 
been lazy as they'd not made a swap partition.

My thought was that with an SSD aware filesystem like btrfs a swapfile would 
actually be a smarter move than a swap partition because it lets the 
filesystem try and even the wear generated by access to it which a swap 
partition will not have the freedom to do.

To me that makes logical sense but given the complexity of the kernel and 
btrfs is it a fair comment to make and, also, would that be the case with 
btrfs at present ?

cheers!
Chris
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