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Do you mean that you don't have to find the LBA of the extents of your swap file, and put that into a kernel argument anymore?
Cuz that is a nasty, skanky hack.
I've never heard of that, it's beyond me. So it's an increased risk when tweaking the kernel? As an average home user it's all right?