Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!buddy.Berkeley.EDU!deboor
From: deboor@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (Adam R de Boor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: swap partitions vs files
Message-ID: <17277@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 16 Sep 89 22:57:24 GMT
References: <858@cirrusl.UUCP>
Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU
Reply-To: deboor@buddy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Adam R de Boor)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 8


Given that if you increase the size of a file once you've given it to the
kernel as swap space, the kernel doesn't recognize the increase (or
a decrease, which has led to some interesting panics), I assume the mapping
to the physical disk blocks is done once for a local file. That's just
speculation arrived at empirically...

a