On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: > 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 :) >
I have a (small) swap partition, and a big 'emergeny' swapfile - that is hardly ever used. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
