Re: [CentOS] partitioning order and IO performance

Timo Schoeler wrote:

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But these days, nothing should ever be reading from swap, although you might write a bit there. If it does, buy some more RAM instead of worrying about disk performance.

Sure, absolutely no question; *but* in the (ancient) times it was important, it was 'nice' to have it as fast as possible, i.e. on the fastest section(s) of the used HDs. So...

unless you're using tmpfs, where your swap space doubles as backing store for your /tmp I use this quite regularly on solaris, it performs much better than a conventional journaled file system, as recovery from system crashes is totally not a priority.