-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Edwards wrote: > One implication of that is that the filesystem is then not > allowed to move blocks around if they are part of an "active" > swap file? Not that I'm aware of filesystems that shuffle > blocks around while they're part of an open file, but one might > imagine something like that happening as part of some sort of > balancing algorithm. >
I'm not sure if the swap can be moved around during normal use, but I do know that it shows up as an "unmovable" block in XP's defragmentation tool, suggesting that nothing is allowed to move it on disk at all, while it is in use (which, on Windows, means the OS is running). - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl70wsACgkQOypDUo0oQOqDPgCfc78Ejvm96lonhVA581xCftXu c9UAoL+YzrNHQ8iJL+fCmAUlD5WG9s5w =KeKc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
