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> How would you implement a swap on such a filesystem? You couldn't, could you? Why not? It's just a filesystem with layout that's a bit different to most, us
by Freaky 17y ago
> How would you implement a swap on such a filesystem? You couldn't, could you?
Why not? It's just a filesystem with layout that's a bit different to most, users of the filesystem should be completely oblivious to it.
Swap just needs a file it can randomly read and write to; if a fs can't provide such random access, it's not just swap it'll be useless for.