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Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptopExt4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptopPosted Jul 2, 2008 19:00 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)In reply to: Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop by oak Parent article: Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop
Swap is one use-case for disk with which SSD doesn't deal that well, I guess computers of future still need swap... Uh, probably not. Why bother swapping to an expensive medium when swap does not need to be persistent, just add more RAM. You could even devise slower RAM based non persistent drives if you were worried about cost. Swap should die if spinning disks die. The whole point of swap is that in theory it is cheaper than RAM, not that is is persistent. Makes me wonder why no one is building a cheap non persistent "swap" drive yet, do they?
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