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From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
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To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,
	Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_pageout.c
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:51:12 -0700
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On Friday 22 June 2001 08:08 am, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 22-Jun-2001 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> >  BTW, will FreeBSD ever be able to _stop_ paging onto a particular
> >  devices? IMHO, it is quite embarassing to not have this feature after
> >  other OSes have had it for years.
>
> Why? Ever needed to USE that particular feature?

Yes, when swapping on multiple disks and one of them is going
bad, and the system has hot swapable hardware.

The other case is where you want to repartition the disk the
swap space is on (and thereby moving the boundries of the
swap space).

- JimP

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