Bug 57688 – RFE: autopartitioned swap should be near start of disk.

Bug 57688 - RFE: autopartitioned swap should be near start of disk.

Summary:	RFE: autopartitioned swap should be near start of disk.

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2001-12-18 20:02 EST by Ed McKenzie
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-03-12 12:13:41 EST
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Description Ed McKenzie 2001-12-18 20:02:18 EST

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 16:39:47 EST

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 10:40:57 EST

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 2002-01-21 20:36:51 EST

Maybe at some point in the future... not worth the pain in changing the
algorithm at present, though.

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