From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQv3j-0006wj-F9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:49:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 917FBE05F4; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3478AE05F4 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850C46472E for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:49:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.482 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.482 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.039, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qO+X3A4TrdaP for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858C664726 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:49:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQv3P-0004Ih-OQ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:48:55 +0000 Received: from pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([173.71.204.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:48:55 +0000 Received: from en.ABCD by pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:48:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: ABCD Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:48:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200901241044.09521.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <200901241552.28443.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <33CFF852-BD50-43C1-8F8C-C23489910881@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090106) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e7f29f7a-b3e1-4c28-a44e-b061dee833bb X-Archives-Hash: 00ed1ae0361d507c5dcfcc7c757486d7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Edwards wrote: > One implication of that is that the filesystem is then not > allowed to move blocks around if they are part of an "active" > swap file? Not that I'm aware of filesystems that shuffle > blocks around while they're part of an open file, but one might > imagine something like that happening as part of some sort of > balancing algorithm. > I'm not sure if the swap can be moved around during normal use, but I do know that it shows up as an "unmovable" block in XP's defragmentation tool, suggesting that nothing is allowed to move it on disk at all, while it is in use (which, on Windows, means the OS is running). - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl70wsACgkQOypDUo0oQOqDPgCfc78Ejvm96lonhVA581xCftXu c9UAoL+YzrNHQ8iJL+fCmAUlD5WG9s5w =KeKc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----