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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:29:26 +0100
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.4.6 and ext3-2.4-0.9.1-246
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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:27:00PM -0400, Mike Black wrote:
> So it sounds like theres no advantage then to a swap partition vs file?

There are --- the cost of accessing the metadata to do the file
blocknr lookup, and the fragmentation you can get on files, both add
to their cost compared to partitions.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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