[gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

[ABCD <en.ABCD@gmail.com>]

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Grant Edwards wrote:
> I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
> normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
> used for system and application files.  It seems like the
> filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck. But I
> long ago stopped trying to figure out why Windows does things...

There actually is a good reason (oddly enough) for Windows using a file
on the filesystem for its swap space.  Because it is a simple file on
disk, if Windows realizes that the swap file is almost full, it can
expand your swap without having to do things like repartition.  This
makes the "swap is full - out of memory"-type problems less likely to
occur (unless it is "filesystem is full" as well :) ).

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