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Neither i nor parent said that. Confusion?

• ars 1y ago
  You wrote your comment like it was a rebuttal of the person above you, but the text supports what they said: A filesystem is faster than swap for this. What was your intent?
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• cwillu 1y ago
  ext4 is irrelevant to what happens when a file is backed by swap; even with swapfiles, the mm subsystem more or less goes behind the back of the filesystem to access the disk corresponding to the swapfile. The overhead of making (size-of-read / 4kb) requests (potentially stalling the reading process for every page) is relevant even on an ssd; there are costs to random access beyond moving a disk head and waiting for a platter to spin into position, and those costs are still relevant with solid-state storage.