Or go a little step further and implement logical volumes. This can also
be easily extended to support some RAID concepts. There's some food for
thought in lrcftp.epfl.ch:/pub/people/almesber/lv/lv.{tex,ps}.gz
I've also been writing on a revision of that document, mainly adding a
few words about recovery. If there's interest, I could pick this up
again and complete it.
> This lets an unfragmented file (say, the Windows swap file)
> become a swap _partition_ with full speed advantages or an [...]
Turning contiguous areas of a file into slices would certainly be an
interesting option. The file wouldn't even have to be totally
unfragmented.
- Werner
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