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
(or copy a fixed value to all, depending on *entropy-copy*). Deprecate
*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:
it reports more often now, so that it is more obvious that files
are being transferred even when the percentage progress does not