> Are there any advantages to having many small swap partitions laid
> out at regular intervals along the disk? Would this offer better
> efficiency? Could a filesystem take into account a file spread
> across disk like this in an efficient way?
It's probably a pointless exercise in partitioning
since, as you said it, the filesystem spreads data
around all of the disk so the heads already have to
move all over the place...
Rik -- slowly getting used to dvorak kbd layout...
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