On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
- You would get the SAME ADVANTAGE by having the FILE on another
physical drive!
Wouldn't you still have a problem with fragmentation leading to additional io? I ask because the VMware/Netapp best practices for Windows and Linux on ESX clusters still recommends a separate filesystem dedicated to swap regardless of the the underlying backend be it block (iSCSI, Fiberchannel) or file (NFS). This kind of surprises me because you would think that if your using shared storage such a NetAPP Filer the IO is spread across all drives anyway so you save mostly nothing on IO so the only thing I can think is that a separate filesystem saves a small amount due to consolidation of all fragments to one location.
...dont even get me started on other trouble I've had with filesystems and block alignment ;)