swap file vs. swap partition

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7/30/05, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <ml2news at optonline.net> wrote:
> menscher at uiuc.edu (Damian Menscher) writes:
> > A swap partition would be faster (think about it -- no filesystem
> > overhead).
> 
> Not true anymore. There is no overhead for a swap file compared to a swap
> partition:
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/801af09eaf08147c/7bbb9d44ece78faf?lnk=st&q=group:*kernel*+swap+file+partition&rnum=1#7bbb9d44ece78faf
> 

Very interesting, thank you. I think that if I can do it, however, I
will go with the swap partition. If I fail, then I will fall back to
the swap file.

Dotan Cohen
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