There's
several advantages to doing it that way, including balancing wear on
a disk (especially today, with SSDs), as a dedicated swap partition could put
undue wear on certain areas of disk.
I thought avoiding this very problem was the purpose of the wear leveling
functions in SSD controllers.
Yeah, it's all block level now. The controller shouldn't care about the purpose
of an individual block.
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