Changes: explain the swapfile settings (and how limited they are)

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Adriaan de Groot 2020-10-06 22:25:14 +02:00
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@ -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 system) now supports more than one entropy file; generate them as needed
(or copy a fixed value to all, depending on *entropy-copy*). Deprecate (or copy a fixed value to all, depending on *entropy-copy*). Deprecate
*entropy* (which generates a specific output file) as too inflexible. *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: - Progress reporting from the *unpackfs* module has been revamped:
it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files
are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not