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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Recommendation on partition sizes |
| Date | 2018-11-06 15:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <wRadk-2x2-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <wQsOZ-xe-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <wQtrH-Zf-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <wQwIV-2NQ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <wQz45-5q6-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <wQIAq-2NF-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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> I was reading about swap recently and fell upon (like a sword) this
> remark from 2005 from Andrew Morton:
>
> Create the swapfile when the filesystem is young and empty, it'll be
> nice and contiguous. Once created the kernel will never add or
> remove blocks.
He's talking about swap *files*: space in file systems tends to fragment.
> Can it be inferred that excessive (LVM) resizing would be detrimental
> contiguity-wise, and thus also performance-wise, or is this
> insignificant and not a concern?
The issue also exists, but it's *much* less significant, since there's
*much* less activity of adding/removing/resizing, and it's done in much
larger increments and LVM imposes a minimum granularity, so even if it
ends up not 100% contiguous in practice it can be ignored.
Stefan
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Recommendation on partition sizes D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-04 04:30 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-04 05:50 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-04 10:30 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-04 14:00 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-04 14:40 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-04 14:50 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-04 16:00 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-11-05 09:20 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-05 19:50 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-11-04 16:50 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-04 17:30 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-11-04 21:00 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-04 23:30 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-11-05 00:20 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-05 20:20 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-11-05 09:40 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-05 16:20 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-11-06 15:10 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-06 16:20 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-04 17:40 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-11-04 08:40 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-11-04 15:10 +0100
Re: Recommendation on partition sizes Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-04 10:30 +0100
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