Bug 57688 - RFE: autopartitioned swap should be near start of disk.
Summary: RFE: autopartitioned swap should be near start of disk.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-19 01:02 UTC by Ed McKenzie
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-12 17:13:41 UTC
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Description Ed McKenzie 2001-12-19 01:02:18 UTC 
Disk Druid's autopartitioning places swap at the end of the drive.  Shouldn't swap 
be near the fastest part of the disk?  FreeBSD's sysinstall seems to think so, and 
IIRC much earlier versions of RHL did too.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-01-02 21:39:47 UTC 
The algorithm hasn't changed at all from earlier versions of Red Hat Linux, and
with modern disks, I really don't know that there's enough of a difference to be
statitistically significant.
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-01-20 15:40:57 UTC 
katzj, do we want to implement this or close it?  Like you said, I don't think
that there would be a noticeable difference.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-01-22 01:36:51 UTC 
Maybe at some point in the future... not worth the pain in changing the
algorithm at present, though.
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