swap versions?

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Net Llama! shocked and awed us all by speaking:
> 2.5.x & 2.6.x kernels require swap version 1.  What I can't figure out is
> what's the difference between swap0 & swap1?  I've googled a bit, and there
> are tons of instructions talking about how this version or that version are
> needed with kernel f00, but still no one explains why version 1 is an
> improvement over version 0.  Anyone have an explanation, or a pointer to
> one?

version 1 lifted the limits on big each partition could be and made the 
on-disk format much more efficient making swap-in/out less of a performance 
hit
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
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