Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:16:48 +1200 | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP |
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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 12:17, CaT wrote: > I'm curious. What does a swapfile solve that a swapdev does not? Either > way you need to prealloc the case (either have a chunky file in a > partition or a partition set aside) or you need to keep enough room > avail to fit the file when it's needed.
Nothing but further bloat in swsusp :> With a swapfile, we need to know the location of the file (and be able to find it again when it changes, and know how to find the next block in the file system - it might be fragmented). The simplest solution is to keep using the current method and create a separate swap partition if you really feel you need to, only turning it on before swap and turning if off afterwards. As Pavel said, code could be added to get swsusp to do it itself.
Regards,
Nigel
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