From: Marat Buharov <marat.buharov@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap partition vs swap file
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:37:56 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <698310e10506290337681fad81@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050628220334.66da4656.akpm@osdl.org>
Hmm, but what about tells mkswap(8) tells:
"...Note that a swap file must not contain any holes (so, using cp
(1) to create the file is not acceptable)..."?
If swap file will be fragmented it will contain holes.
Or what type of holes can cp(1) can create, which are not usefull for mkswap(8)?
2005/6/29, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:
> Mike Richards <mrmikerich@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Given this situation, is there any significant performance or
> > stability advantage to using a swap partition instead of a swap file?
>
> In 2.6 they have the same reliability and they will have the same
> performance unless the swapfile is badly fragmented.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 10:38 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 [this message]
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
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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