>Yes, I read that - and, as it points out, an 8 Meg swapfile created
>with the dd command is not a problem, since that's only half the size
>of the "block groups" that ext2 uses.
>Your claim that I could replace any of my seven 126 Meg swap
>partitions with an ext2 partition containing one dirty great swap file
>is NOT consistant with that though, or have you overlooked the last
>sentence in your quote? It does say "no holes", and that isn't
>possible on ext2 for files larger than the block group, AS YOU
>ADMITTED ABOVE...
You are getting fragments and holes mixed up. A file with holes is one
that pretends to be much bigger then it actualy is (By not actualy
storing large chunks of zeros).
Linux has no problems with 128Mb swapfiles on ext2fs. I'm currently
running a production server with 1.5Gb of swap spread over 12 such
swapfiles with no problems whatsoever. (Although I look forward to 2.2
and large-swap support for a single 2Gb swap-partition :)
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