Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap???)

2003-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:34:47 +0100 Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to what a prof. said, swapspace should be placed outside any > filesystems since that filesystem would add to the already gigantic overhead > the disk produces by adding a layer of indirection (look up the file,

Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap???)

2003-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:51, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't > > do it!! > > Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on > the curr

Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???)

2003-01-28 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:51, Steve Lamb wrote: > Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on > the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just that > with swapd. Question is what effects do a journalling file system have on > swap files? A

Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???)

2003-01-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't > do it!! Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just