Enhancement Request: Create swapfiles rather than swap partitions at install. Rationale: 1. Swapfiles can be resized without having to repartition. Also, this would make it possible to install RHL on dual-boot machines that for various reasons don't support out-of-order partitions or strange booting strategies. (IMO, it should be possible to install RHL in a single partition anywhere without having to repartition.) 2. AFAIK bad blocks that develop after mkswap can't be remapped. This is not the case for swap files. 3. The performance loss for using swapfiles is negligible. (Of course, there's alot to be considered here -- e.g. if RedHat starts shipping ext3, what happens to system performance if users enable -o journal=data on root fs ... but I think this is definitely something to be explored.)
I don't think we want to do this this time around.