Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???)
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:51, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> 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 that with
> swapd. Question is what effects do a journalling file system have on swap
> files?
Very true, but then it's a swap *file*, not a swap partition, and that's
what the OP asked about...
Besides, *why* create a swap file, when swap partitions are more
efficient?
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