swap file vs. swap partition

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer]

menscher at uiuc.edu (Damian Menscher) writes:
> A swap partition would be faster (think about it -- no filesystem
> overhead).  

Not true anymore. There is no overhead for a swap file compared to a swap
partition:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/801af09eaf08147c/7bbb9d44ece78faf?lnk=st&q=group:*kernel*+swap+file+partition&rnum=1#7bbb9d44ece78faf

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