We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers

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  • zfs

    OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

  • zram-generator

    Systemd unit generator for zram devices

  • https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator is great and well overdue it does miss one setting that is legacy disk swap. /proc/sys/vm/pagecluster https://sysctl-explorer.net/vm/pagecluster/

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  • zram-swap-config

    Replacement for broken zram-config-0.5 package

  • I still have https://github.com/StuartIanNaylor/zram-swap-config but doesn't do much more than https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator#readme but I passed control of https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config as maintenance aint my strong point and it was just a protest of hey guys get this sorted.

  • zram-config

    A complete zram-config utility for swap, directories, and logs to reduce SD, NAND and eMMC block wear.

  • I still have https://github.com/StuartIanNaylor/zram-swap-config but doesn't do much more than https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator#readme but I passed control of https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config as maintenance aint my strong point and it was just a protest of hey guys get this sorted.

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