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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Virtual Disk (Was Re: Files larger than available memory.)
Summary: Writing to a pre-allocated swap file is OK.
Message-ID: <1286@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 90 07:48:52 GMT
References: <1088@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <409@tlvx.UUCP> <1124@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <32892@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <42.2712f4e3@vger.nsu.edu>
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In article <42.2712f4e3@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
>I guess what I am asking is -- By using a swap device to a hard disk, 
>wont we aggrevate the the problems with corrupted files?

No.  The problems with the file system due to power failure or reboot
occur when writing new blocks to a file.  It does not occur when rewriting
an already-in-use block.  Writing to swap space is OK.
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