Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:55:03 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [announce] swap mini-howto |
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Hi!
> That has changed in 2.5. Swapping onto a regular file has no > disadvantage wrt swapping onto a block device. The kernel does > not need to allocate any memory at all to get a swapcache page > onto disk. > > Which is interesting. Because swapfiles are much easier to administer, > and much easier to stripe. Adding, removing and resizing is simplified. > Distributors of 2.6-based kernels could consider doing away with > swapdevs altogether.
Well, you can swsusp to partition. You can't swsusp to a file, as that is very hard to do. Pavel -- When do you have heart between your knees? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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