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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A few minor prob left...
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Date: 18 Oct 90 16:55:42 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.231958.10800@ccng.waterloo.edu>, tgoldtho@ccng.waterloo.edu (Thomas A. Goldthorpe) writes:
|> In article <53614@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
|> >The point of having a swapfile is that it 
|> >can grow and shrink (after a reboot) according to the demand and within the
|> >bounds of the size of the filesystem. By using a swap partition, you get rid
|> >of this advantage.
|> 
|> What advantage?  You can place your swapfile anywhere.  It will still have
|> that dynamic characteristic.  If it runs out of space, swapon allows for other
|> swap files in other partitions to be used anyway. 
The point is, that if you want multiple swapfiles you have to install them 
manually. If you just have one in the standard configuration, then everything
works automatically and you don't have to bother about multiple swapfiles.
The main advantage of having one partition is that you don't have to think about
how much space you want to use for swap space, /tmp or other files. As soon as
you make partitions for other reasons than the /client that is used by NeXT, 
you have to think about these things.
The baseline: the closer you are with what you are doing with what NeXT intended
the less trouble there will be.

-- Ronald
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