On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote:
> Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326
>
> In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a
> partition or a swapfile...

Except that for a swap partition all parts of it are certainly contiguous. 
Something that does not generally hold for swap files. Being contiguous could 
help the speed a bit.

Paul

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