On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Scott R. Godin wrote:
> One odd thing in the article you cited, was that if I read this
> correctly, you're not able to specify the filesystem type 'swap' and
> must instead use hfs/ufs as the filesystem type, despite the fact that
> it's dedicated TO swapping entirely. Does OSX not support a 'swap'
> filesystem type in /etc/fstab ?
OSX isn't Linux :)
The OSX / Darwin / mach / whatever virtual memory model is built around
this swap files files approach, for better or worse.
The upside is that it gives you an infinite amount of virtual memory,
where "infinite" here means "less than or equal to however much space you
can delete off your hard drive". :)
If you try to restrict swap to a dedicated partition, you won't gain very
much performance-wise -- and as far as I can tell the disc fragmentation
thing isn't nearly as big of a deal as it was on, say, FAT32.
I could be wrong about that last bit, but the lack of a defragmentation
component to the standard disc management software leads me to think that
Apple for one doesn't seem to concerned about this either.
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