"James A. Treacy" wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:41:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > The reasons that swap spaces are perenially partitions and not
> > flat files are due partly to historical hysteria and partly
> > administrative admonitions.
> >
> [snip]
>
> Having swap on it's own partition is also more efficient since
> it doesn't have to go through the file system.
Oh boy. I was not complaining about swap itself, just the way that
Linux does swap. On any Unix system I've ever worked on, except Linux,
you don't need a seperate partition for swap, as in the four primary PC
hard disk partitions. You assign a partition of lenght x for your Unix
partition, do your install and carve up the disk into slices. One of
the slices is for swap. On linux, you assign a partition of length x
for your OS, and create a seperate partition y for swap. As someone
else mentioned a long time ago, if you use debian, you could just use
partition x with a swap file of y.
alan
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