It's my understanding that the overhead of the filesystem (ext2, or
whatever you have) as opposed to writing to a "raw" partition, is the
advantage of dedicating a partition for swap.
I usually just find a smaller drive that's laying around not doing
anything and make it the swap drive ... this ma
Robert de Forest writes:
> This is obviously more flexible, and since it's the same drive either
> way, the only possible performance hit would be if the kernel made a
> distinction.
Well, there's no performance hit at all if you never use the swap.
However, when I switched from a swap partition t
On Sun, 01 Jun 1997 12:32:14 PDT Robert de Forest ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> By default most linux distributions request and almost require that the
> user setup a swap partition. What is the advantage of swapping to a
> partition rather than swapping to a file? In my machine I have a /swap
>
This isn't really a debian-specific question, but this is my favorite
linux list by far.
By default most linux distributions request and almost require that the
user setup a swap partition. What is the advantage of swapping to a
partition rather than swapping to a file? In my machine I have a /swa
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