Oh, this takes me back. I used to spread my swap out across all my disks on my system. When I had 2 disks. I put /boot, / and /var on one disk and /home on the

Oh, this takes me back. I used to spread my swap out across all my disks on my system. When I had 2 disks. I put /boot, / and /var on one disk and /home on the other. When I had more disks, I moved /var onto its own disk, and had an extra drive that I symlinked into /home. I put swap first on all the partitions. It's not like I did any benchmarking, there was just lore that swap should be close to the middle, followed by frequently accessed user data. At some point I got enough RAM that the swap wasn't really important, but I always provisioned it. Now everything is SSD, and I feel like the whole idea of filesystem that you have to mount and keep consistent is kind old fashioned, but we have so much stuff built on the filesystem it will be with us a long time.