Re: [ros-dev] A reimplementation of reactos' cache manager supporting alternate filesystems better (including ext2)

[Love Nystrom]

Brian wrote:
> i was always under the impression that having a swap 
> partition meant that you did not have to hassle with the file system 
> allowing for marginal performance boosts.

That is generally true. In theory, APIs to access a swap partition can be
implemented to use the disk device driver directly, removing the additional
processing incurred by file systems drivers.

In practice on NT, I believe the proper way is to implement a swap
file system driver, which can be made more efficient than regular
file systems drivers.