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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 1996 13:54:09 +1030."
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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 10:29:24 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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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.

--
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