From 26e8a6bcb59bc4d467bc94a646c4ba43bb54661d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adriaan de Groot Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 22:25:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Changes: explain the swapfile settings (and how limited they are) --- CHANGES | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index a96335e6e..0adfede4d 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ This release contains contributions from (alphabetically by first name): system) now supports more than one entropy file; generate them as needed (or copy a fixed value to all, depending on *entropy-copy*). Deprecate *entropy* (which generates a specific output file) as too inflexible. + - In the *partition* module, swap can now be chosen as *file*, which is + **not** create a swap partition, but write a `/swapfile` in the root + directory, 512MiB large, and set that as swap. There is as yet no + "smarts" about the size of the swap file. - Progress reporting from the *unpackfs* module has been revamped: it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not