Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > A swap partition is not subject to the controls of a file system. That > is, it can't get fragmented, it can be positioned at the fast (or slow) > end of a disk, it can be (as you suggest) placed on a completely > separate device. It can be shared between dual-booting Linux systems.
A swap file does not get fragmented either, since it has to be allocated completely before use. Also the myth that a swap file is slower compared to a partition is not true since at least Linux 2.3. And the placement of the swap is of just theoretical nature. The speed of swap is like comparing the movement speed of a glacier with that of the speed of sound to star with. Even if a swap space in the other portion of a HDD is 1.5 times faster than a swap space in the inner one, it still is abysmally slower than RAM. So in the end really does not matter where you place your swap on your HDD. Placing swap on an SSD helps, but if your system starts to heavily swap pages out, you are trashed anyways. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
