From: Jeremy Nickurak <atrus@lkml.spam.rifetech.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap partition vs swap file
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:35:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120836958.16935.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DqhZV-0004yW-00@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>
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On ven, 2005-07-08 at 03:22 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> No, it is creating files by appending just like any other file write. One
> could think about a call to create unfragmented files however since this is
> not always working best is to create those files young or defragment them
> before usage.
Except that this defeats one of the biggest advantages a swap file has
over a swap partition: the ability to easilly reconfigure the amount of
hd space reserved for swap.
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Jeremy Nickurak <atrus@lkml.spam.rifetech.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-08 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-29 0:57 Swap partition vs swap file Mike Richards
2005-06-29 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 10:37 ` Marat Buharov
2005-06-29 11:46 ` Douglas McNaught
2005-07-07 19:50 ` Mike Richards
2005-07-07 21:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-08 0:44 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-07-08 1:22 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-08 15:35 ` Jeremy Nickurak [this message]
2005-07-08 21:35 ` Helge Hafting
2005-07-08 22:41 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-09 22:59 ` Eric Sandall
2005-07-10 1:45 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-10 2:14 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-10 12:54 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-10 21:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-11 11:10 ` Helge Hafting
2005-07-12 21:53 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-13 10:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
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