Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???)
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?
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,
reposition the head, start reading swap).
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