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.