Re: Swap vs. ext2 fragmentation avoidance?

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu)
Sat, 25 Apr 1998 21:56:15 -0400


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From: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 9:57 PM
Subject: Swap vs. ext2 fragmentation avoidance?

>Somthing has occured to me reading the discussions on
>memory-fragmentation: why we can't effectivily use ext2fs's
>fragmentation-avoidiance with our memory? I'm shure I'm missing somthing
>/really/ simple here, but I don't know what it is.
>
> -=- James Mastros

Paging make memory fragmentation irrelevent as a page may be located on any
4kb block. And there is no speed difference when accessing memory at
different locations. Unless that page has been swapped out the the disk.

>
>--
>Where do you want to go today?
>We might support that sometime next year.
> -=- Microsoft
>(But I doubt it.)
> -=- Me
>
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