David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is >that a myth?
Not a myth, just old information. It used to be the case that swap files were slower than swap partitions, but this stopped being true sometime around kernel 2.4 >Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern >system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old >BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of >the disk. I tend to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems -- >am I taking some kind of risk by doing so? I do the same and have had no problems. This may restrict the type of filesystem you can use on your root partition though. I dont think GRUB can load a kernel from an XFS filesystem, so by separating root and /boot, you can put ext2/3 on /boot and something else on root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
