Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:22:36 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: New Feature Idea: Compress swap file |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> 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.
An ext2 like approximation would work however. Or just queueing up _everything_ at once for writing and have the lowlevel drivers do the work, but that might generate too much I/O at once.
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