Swapfile creation btrfs - is this right?

I installed a new system (EnOS NEO with BTRFS), and forgot to create the swapfile in calamares.
So, I created it following the below procedure, if you have a minute can you please check if its correct?

Boot to live USB

Commands used
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
$ cd /mnt
# btrfs subvolume create @swap
$ cd @
# mkdir swap
# mount -o subvol=@swap /dev/sda2 swap
$ cd swap
# truncate -s 0 ./swapfile
# chattr +C ./swapfile
# btrfs property set ./swapfile compression none
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=512 status=progress
# chmod 600 swapfile
# mkswap swapfile
# swapon swapfile

Add this to fstab

/etc/fstab
UUID=UUID_OF_DEV/SDA2  			   /swap                  btrfs    subvol=@swap,defaults,noatime 0 0
/swap/swapfile                             none                   swap     defaults 0 0

After reboot

cat /proc/swaps
$ cat /proc/swaps 
Filename				Type		Size		Used		Priority
/swap/swapfile                          file		524284		0		-2

What is strange, is that in Arch Wiki they say to remove the discard,autodefrag and compression options, but I can’t remove compression, it mounts with that option automatically.

# mount | grep swap
/dev/sda2 on /swap type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=262,subvol=/@swap)

That is because btrfs doesn’t support different compression methods for subvolumes in the same filesystem.

That should be fine though because it looks like you disabled compression on that file explicitly.

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Thanks for taking a look at it Dalto, more comfortable now knowing that everything is right

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