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SubjectRe: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file
On 1998-02-22T13:14:07,
Emil Briggs <briggs@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu> said:

> I don't know for certain but it sounds reasonable. Which brings to mind
> another question -- do the buffer flushing routines consider hard disk
> geometry when deciding which dirty buffers to write to disk and in what
> order to write them? (I'm not referring to swap specifically here).

Since the real geometry isn't known to the driver, this would be a useless
thing to try.

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