On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 01:20:08PM +0900, Tatsuki Makino wrote:
Hello.
By the way, is it unpopular these days to use mdconfig to use a normal regular
file as swap space?
However, despite the fact that I brought up the topic of that method, I have
never actually used it myself, so it seems that the method is unpopular :)
Useful to make extra swap space on-the-fly. I've used it on occasion
to add swap space. But it's best added to the fastest media, like
ssd. Adding it to a spinning rust ufs is slower. It's not really
suitable to add to a zfs filesystem in my experience.
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