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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:55:03 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [announce] swap mini-howto
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Hi!

> That has changed in 2.5.  Swapping onto a regular file has no
> disadvantage wrt swapping onto a block device.  The kernel does
> not need to allocate any memory at all to get a swapcache page
> onto disk.
> 
> Which is interesting.  Because swapfiles are much easier to administer,
> and much easier to stripe.  Adding, removing and resizing is simplified.
> Distributors of 2.6-based kernels could consider doing away with
> swapdevs altogether.

Well, you can swsusp to partition. You can't swsusp to a file, as that
is very hard to do.
								Pavel
-- 
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