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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> One implication of that is that the filesystem is then not |
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> allowed to move blocks around if they are part of an "active" |
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> swap file? Not that I'm aware of filesystems that shuffle |
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> blocks around while they're part of an open file, but one might |
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> imagine something like that happening as part of some sort of |
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> balancing algorithm. |
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I'm not sure if the swap can be moved around during normal use, but I do |
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know that it shows up as an "unmovable" block in XP's defragmentation |
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tool, suggesting that nothing is allowed to move it on disk at all, |
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while it is in use (which, on Windows, means the OS is running). |
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