On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti <black.flederm...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Hello, > > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which > write about 6-7 MB/s). > > As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use this? > > fallocate is also part of the util-linux package which essential in debian. > > Best Regards, > basti > > Why don't we use it? We don't use it because we are a user group, not application developers. The clue was in the group name...
