On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? > > > > yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will work as fine as > > a swap partition. > > True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to the VM > subsystem. The whole point of the swap partition is to simplify access to > swapped pages and therefore make it very fast.
that does not explain, why a good swapfile is not slower than a partition ;) > > Moreover, a swap partion is easily reusable between other Linuxes on the > same box and although you can also reuse a swapfile, you'll need to mount > the partition first. so what is the difference between mounting a partition and mounting a partition? > > > you can always remove the windows partition ;) > > Windows can *sometimes* save your life :) > hm, so far it only removed many years of my potential lifespan. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
