From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ext2 development mailing list <ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:29:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010710192926.D1493@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200107101752.f6AHqXUu022141@webber.adilger.int> <018101c1096a$17e2afc0$b6562341@cfl.rr.com> <20010710191719.B1493@redhat.com> <01cb01c1096d$e9052bc0$b6562341@cfl.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <01cb01c1096d$e9052bc0$b6562341@cfl.rr.com>; from mblack@csihq.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:27:00PM -0400
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:27:00PM -0400, Mike Black wrote:
> So it sounds like theres no advantage then to a swap partition vs file?
There are --- the cost of accessing the metadata to do the file
blocknr lookup, and the fragmentation you can get on files, both add
to their cost compared to partitions.
Cheers,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-10 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-10 9:47 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246 Mike Black
2001-07-10 17:52 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <018101c1096a$17e2afc0$b6562341@cfl.rr.com>
2001-07-10 18:17 ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-10 18:27 ` Mike Black
2001-07-10 18:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-07-10 18:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-11 4:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-11 12:16 ` Mike Black
2001-07-11 15:36 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-12 10:54 ` Mike Black
2001-07-12 11:34 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-13 12:22 ` Mike Black
2001-07-13 13:54 ` Mike Black
2001-07-13 14:15 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-13 17:30 ` Mike Black
2001-07-13 17:38 ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-14 10:42 ` Mike Black
2001-07-14 10:53 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-14 11:58 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-16 18:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-13 16:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-13 17:27 ` Steve Lord
2001-07-13 17:33 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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