Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> > You misunderstood entirely what I said.
>
> There is no portable/documented way to grow a file without having the file
> system null its content. However why is that a problem, you dont create
> those files very often. Besides it is better for the OS to be able to asume
> that a page with zeros in it is equal to the page on fresh swap.
So are you saying that if I create a swap partition it's best to use dd to
zero it out before mkswap? If no, then why would a file be different? I
know there's no documented way to create a file of given size without
writing content. I saw windows grow a pagefile several meg in less than a
second so I'm sure that it doesn't zero out the space first.
As far as portable, we're talking about linux, portability is not an issue
in this case. I myself don't use swap files (or partitions), however, there
was a project I recall that would dynamically add/remove swap as needed.
Creating a file of 20-50mb quickly would have been beneficial.
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