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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: docs/26579: FAQ inconsistency regarding allocating swap with vnconfig 
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:09:35 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> writes:
> > [ /etc/rc uses `vnconfig ... && swapon` instead of `vnconfig swap` ]
>  Hmmmm (a brief pause as he goes off to read the source to vnconfig).
>  
>  Well blow me, erm, down!  I didn't know vnconfig would do the swapon()
>  itself if you used the swap argument.  I agree that this should be
>  changed as you say.

Is anybody actually going to fix this now that RELENG_4 is unfrozen?

Here's the obvious patch.

Index: rc
===================================================================
RCS file: /st/src/FreeBSD/src/etc/rc,v
retrieving revision 1.212.2.21
diff -u -r1.212.2.21 rc
--- rc	2001/03/07 20:13:56	1.212.2.21
+++ rc	2001/04/25 01:06:14
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
 *)
 	if [ -w "${swapfile}" -a -c /dev/vn0b ]; then
 		echo "Adding ${swapfile} as additional swap"
-		vnconfig /dev/vn0b ${swapfile} && swapon /dev/vn0b
+		vnconfig -ce /dev/vn0b ${swapfile} swap
 	fi
 	;;
 esac

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