Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:29:26 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246 |
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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.
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