Eric Sandall wrote: > >Of course, now this begs the question: Is it possible to create a large > >file > >w/o actually writing that much to the device (ie uninitialized). There's > >absolutely no reason that a swap file needs to be fully initialized, only > >part which mkswap does. Of course, I would expect that ONLY root beable to > >do this. (or capsysadmin or whatever the caps are) > > That would make the swap file fragment as it's used, instead of > allocating one big file (the entire file) at once (and hopefully get > one contiguous chunk of the disk).
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