recursive_recursion, 1 year ago (edited 10 months ago)

As swap is recommended just in case all RAM is maxed it’s better to have a swap partition as swap files have certain limitations when in combined use with BTRFS:

• "subvolume - cannot be snapshotted if it contains any active swapfiles"
• has a chance to fragment
• has issues with hibernation (that I’ve personally encountered multiple times)

here’s the link for more info: man.archlinux.org/man/btrfs.5#SWAPFILE_SUPPORT

after switching to a swap partition with BTRFS I’ve experienced no issues for a user configuration