Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 10:29:24 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments? Message-ID: <404.821093364@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 1996 13:54:09 %2B1030." <199601080324.NAA00366@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > > This still means that swap operations have to go through the FAT filesyst em > > > code, which is slow and buggy. I'm looking for a performance solution > > > here, not a crumb to throw to people with space problems. > > Well, the right solution is to fix the msdosfs to have a decent performance > > in the cases needed and to bug davidg & dyson to implement swapping on > > any random vnode... > > That still doesn't achieve what I want, which is for 'native' FreeBSD > disk slices to be able to exist _inside_ a FAT filesystem. Yes in fact it would. It is the only way to avoid the terrible problems you get into if for instance I rm -f /dos/C/WINDOWS.SWP while you swap on it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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