Thread: First thoughts about the (pre) Sailfish OS 2.0
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MikeHG is offline MikeHG
2015-09-08 , 18:13
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Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
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On the other hand if the LVM2 + thin pool + EXT4/XFS combo was used instead of btrfs,
you would get much of the benefits of btrfs (COW snapshots, space allocation from a pool, etc.)
and you could just easily create a new logical volume in the volume group and use that for swap.
I wonder *how bad* loop mount performance is for swap?

Haven't read much of this thread (sorry, busy ) but the impression I got was that most of the people complaining about app-killing accept that massive slowdowns / 'thrashing' is the only alternative.

As long as it's still moving fast enough to take remedial action and free up some RAM...