[GRLUG] Solid State Drives

[Tim Schmidt]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> Swap might be a bit faster than file system access but can't be faster
> than the maximum throughput of the drive(s).

Yes, it can.  It's called compression.  Often used in situations where
one might want to shove a large amount of data over a low bandwidth
link.  Mainline Linux kernels don't compress swap (yet), but it's
certainly a feature I'd expect to see sometime.

--tim