Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Swap partition vs swap file | From | Jeremy Nickurak <> | Date | Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:35:58 -0600 |
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On ven, 2005-07-08 at 03:22 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > No, it is creating files by appending just like any other file write. One > could think about a call to create unfragmented files however since this is > not always working best is to create those files young or defragment them > before usage.
Except that this defeats one of the biggest advantages a swap file has over a swap partition: the ability to easilly reconfigure the amount of hd space reserved for swap.
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