usb stick as swap partition

[James Wilkinson]

Walter Francis wrote (about swapping to a USB stick):
> This has GOT to be the DUMBEST idea I've ever heard.

So you don't want me to tell you about swapping to NFS shares. Over
thick Ethernet (shared 10 Mbit/s).

(To be fair, this is the sort of thing that might have been done fifteen
years ago, on diskless servers with not much RAM and no-where else to
swap. RAM and disks were expensive back then).

James.

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