Hello, this will be my first blog entry. I don’t plan to post to a blog regularly but occasionally I feel like putting up my opinions somewhere so someone can read them. you will probably find the same entries at slashdot just as ignored if not more so (cause its a bigger site). I will put an effort towards spelling and my grammar is naturally good. (still in school so I’m still compelled to write well)
Today I would like to address something I heard on the Macgeekery Podcast. Someone called in wanting to create a mac/linux duel-boot and he wanted them to have a shared swap partition. Its nothing much but they simply said that there is no way they will share a swap partition under the constraints that his linux distro doesn’t support HFS (and i dont think ufs either but i don’t remember) and I think they should have explained that Mac OS X has a dynamic swap partition referred to in the activity monitor the VM size. This VM, or virtual memory, I don’t believe this partition would go outside of your Mac HFS partition or extend beyond its bounds but I may be wrong here. This elements the need of anyone to set up a special swap partition for the Mac OS to use. A dynamic swap partition is not better or worse alternative of linux using a swap partition, they each have their own merits. He should just set one up for linux and give the balance of the space not used for the mac os.
PS. I cant wate to get my hands on the “Mac OS X Internals” book!!
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