Re: Swap partition vs swap file

Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-10T02:14:58Z

In article <20050710014559.GA15844@animx.eu.org> you wrote:
> You misunderstood entirely what I said.

There is no portable/documented way to grow a file without having the file
system null its content. However why is that a problem, you dont create
those files very often. Besides it is better for the OS to be able to asume
that a page with zeros in it is equal to the page on fresh swap.

Gruss
Bernd