Hi,
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:27:00PM -0400, Mike Black wrote:
> So it sounds like theres no advantage then to a swap partition vs file?
There are --- the cost of accessing the metadata to do the file
blocknr lookup, and the fragmentation you can get on files, both add
to their cost compared to partitions.
Cheers,
Stephen
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