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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:03:34 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mike Richards <mrmikerich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Swap partition vs swap file
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Mike Richards <mrmikerich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given this situation, is there any significant performance or
>  stability advantage to using a swap partition instead of a swap file?

In 2.6 they have the same reliability and they will have the same
performance unless the swapfile is badly fragmented.