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On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: |
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> Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem: |
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> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 |
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> In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a |
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> partition or a swapfile... |
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Except that for a swap partition all parts of it are certainly contiguous. |
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Something that does not generally hold for swap files. Being contiguous could |
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help the speed a bit. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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