On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:54:44AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:02:02PM -0800, dean gaudet wrote: > > > it doesn't seem to make any sense at all to use a non-volatile external > > > memory for swap... swap has no purpose past a power outage. > > > > No, but it is a very fast swap device. Much faster than a hard drive. > > Wouldn't the same amount of money be better spent on RAM then? Sure, but when you happen to have such a device lying idle, this is a way to use it. (note that you can also use unused memory on your video adapter as a fast swap device). Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
