On Tue, 2023-07-11 at 01:34 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
> > I wonder if anyone has thought of designing things to have a
> > dedicated hibernation file or partition that isn't also used
> > for swap?
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> I guess that would be an idea, though I'm not sure how much effort
> it
> would save in terms of setting it up.
I was thinking more along the lines of simplicity and predictability.
People would like to hibernate, but never set up their system with a
large enough swap space ahead of time, etc. Or they have several
swap
spaces/files.
Yes, but the hoops you would have to jump through wouldn't be any
different than the current ones for using a swapfile for hibernation. I
agree that making this simpler is a worthy goal, but it's the same goal
in both cases. Not using the hibernation file for swap doesn't gain you
anything.
poc