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Re: Problem with swap partition

As someone on the developer list suggested what we should do
is call it a swapfile partition, in order to differentiate
it with the swap partition used by most unix implementations.
The difference is that a swap partition is essentially one
large block that gets written to directly, whereas as swapfile
partition, you are using a 'generic' file system with the files
being the swap space. That swapfile partition could also be used
for storing other files, this is not the case for a swap partition.

Andre


On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 09:23 AM, Eugene Lee wrote:

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:10:51PM +0200, Nicolas Linkert wrote:
:
: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 13:32:31 -0700, Eugene Lee wrote:
: >
: > AFAIK, Darwin does not support a true "swap partition" like other Unix
: > flavors do.
:
: True, you get a swap _slice_ in *BSD which is part of a partition that
: is inhabited by a number of slices. The problem is, IMHO, that the UFS
: implementation of Apple is faulty.
[...]
: The solution is a dedicated
: swap partition (HFS+ or UFS - I've chosen UFS) which speeds up your
: system because your swap file won't get defragmented.

I don't disagree with your solution of creating a seperate partition to
store swap files. But a true "swap partition" has a specific meaning in
the Unix world (which includes Darwin and OS X). Calling your solution
a "swap partition" is a major misnomer. Unfortunately, it seems that
several OS X help-type sites make the same mistake.


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