Eero Tamminen wrote: > 1. with constant swap file writes, it's much easier to > accidentally cause the card FAT file system to get corrupted ... > If you want swap, I would suggest a fast SD card with a separate > _partition_ for swap AFAIK since version 2.4 of linux kernel, swapping to file no longer goes via filesystem code at all and speed is similar/same to swapping to block device directly. Kernel swapping code makes mapping for blocks belonging to swap file on the beginning and then uses underlying block device directly (both for speed and for deadlock prevention). If the file is not heavily fragmented speed should be the same. Fragmentation is visible in kernel log when swap file is enabled (number of extents). As for corruption I'm not sure but I'd say it is not an issue too since file is already allocated and filesystem code is not used when swapping. Frantisek _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
