I see this 'all the time' :-|
> Hdb 2 Gb. hdb1 Linux root, hdb2 linux swap 128M.
Hmmm, if this is a 2 gigabyte drive, the physical locations might
look like this
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
^/-------------------------------------------------------------^^/swap^
Does the first (most) writes to the '/' get put at the beginning (like DOS)?
Doesn't this default to the disk drive head making the largest (average)
distance traveled to use swap space?
I've always tried to order my partitions thus:
par 1: static files (anything that rarely changes size)
par 2: swap space
par 3: user data (anything that frequently changes size)
This way the disk drive head is closest to
swap space and frequently accessed data.
Does this logic improve performance in real life?
Wondering, Chuck
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Researching GELM
