Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a partition or a swapfile... In this situation, a swap partition is only more easy to manage (You don't need to create the file after the instalation proccess) and can be shared by several SOs in a same computer. But swapfiles can be more flexible (you can expand and move more easily). I think I will prefer swapfiles in future instalations :) 2007/3/13, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: > My 50 cents: > > A swap partition is always faster than a swap file. Not so much, but is > faster. nope. That was only true for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. One of the features of 2.6 is that swapfiles are not slower anymore. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
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