Re: Swap partition vs swap file

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> Linux doesn't grow swapfiles at all.  It uses what's there at mkswap time.
>> You can make new ones of course - manually.
>
>And this part.  I've never known linux to grow the swap file.  I did try the
>sparse one a long time ago.  Of course it didn't work.

I can't remember where exactly I read it but: when swapon is called, a 
fixed-size(determined at swapon) bitmap of the swap blocks is generated (to 
cope with fragementation of swapfiles). 
Can somebody confirm this?


Jan Engelhardt
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