Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 13:25, tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
> > Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
> >
> > Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage
> > ??
> >
> > Dave
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> I'm thinking not.
>
> ext3 is a journaling system for the purpose of data integrity and
> reliability in the event of a disk failure or some interruption of
> service.
> SWAP is the most temporary partition you can possibly have. /tmp would be
> the next most temporary partition.
> In general, I believe that the use of journaling file systems is a
> degredation of performance compared to a non-journaled system. But I
> could be very wrong in some cases. I'm not really sure....
> But regarding swap, I don't think it will do anything useful for you...
Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't
do it!!
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