From: Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: Marat Buharov <marat.buharov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap partition vs swap file
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:46:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wtod2xnp.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <698310e10506290337681fad81@mail.gmail.com> (Marat Buharov's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:37:56 +0400")
Marat Buharov <marat.buharov@gmail.com> writes:
> Hmm, but what about tells mkswap(8) tells:
> "...Note that a swap file must not contain any holes (so, using cp
> (1) to create the file is not acceptable)..."?
>
> If swap file will be fragmented it will contain holes.
No, holes are actual missing blocks (which are read as zeros) while
fragmentation just means the blocks of the file are not contiguous on
disk.
-Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-29 0:57 Mike Richards
2005-06-29 5:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 10:37 ` Marat Buharov
2005-06-29 11:46 ` Douglas McNaught [this message]
2005-07-07 19:50 ` Mike Richards
2005-07-07 21:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-08 0:44 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-07-08 1:22 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-08 15:35 ` Jeremy Nickurak
2005-07-08 21:35 ` Helge Hafting
2005-07-08 22:41 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-09 22:59 ` Eric Sandall
2005-07-10 1:45 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-10 2:14 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-10 12:54 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-10 21:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-11 11:10 ` Helge Hafting
2005-07-12 21:53 ` Wakko Warner
2005-07-13 10:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
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