Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246

Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-10T18:30:16Z

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