Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-27 Thread Oki DZ
On 03/27 10:25 Crispin Wellington wrote: It may be the way reiserfs sync's data to the disk. In order for reiserfs to squeeze the performance it does out of the filesystem, it may be taking shortcuts that the kernel doesn't like. I see... By crash you mean panic? Yes. The machine can be pin

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:17:14AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > >Move your swap space to a dedicated partition, then forget about it > >for > >ever. > > I need some reasons. Swap files are theoretically slower than swap partitions due to the overhead of the filesystem ... the kernel doesn't have to wor

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:53, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Has any of you installed your swapfiles on reiserfs...? > I have converted all my partitions to reiserfs, and currently the > machine would crash about every week. I don't know for sure whether it > is the source of the problem. I just need an

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-26 Thread Oki DZ
On 03/26 01:44 Michel Clasquin wrote: swap *files*? Are those actually still supported? Yes... dd if=/dev/zero of=/myswapfile bs=1024 count= mkswap /myswapfile swapon /myswapfile What are you trying to do, share swap space with Windows? No, just Linux swapfiles. No, you can't be, that wo

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 25 March 2002 10:53, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Has any of you installed your swapfiles on reiserfs...? swap *files*? Are those actually still supported? What are you trying to do, share swap space with Windows? No, you can't be, that would have to be on FAT, not Reiser. Move your swap

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-25 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:53:30PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Has any of you installed your swapfiles on reiserfs...? No, why would anyone not use dedicated partions for swap? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbr