On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> > You could use it for an external journal, or you could use it as a swap
> > device.
> >  
> 
> Let me concur, I used external journal on SSD a decade ago with jfs (AIX). If
> you do a lot of operations which generate journal entries, file create,
> delete, etc, then it will double your performance in some cases. Otherwise it
> really doesn't help much, use as a swap device might be more helpful depending
> on your config.

it doesn't seem to make any sense at all to use a non-volatile external 
memory for swap... swap has no purpose past a power outage.

-dean
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