On Tuesday 13 March 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...
Except that for a swap partition all parts of it are certainly contiguous. Something that does not generally hold for swap files. Being contiguous could help the speed a bit. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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