Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:17:38 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: md Message-ID: <12115.1047917858@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:48:13 %2B0200." <008601c2ec9c$9ea015e0$932a40c1@PHE>
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In message <008601c2ec9c$9ea015e0$932a40c1@PHE>, "Petri Helenius" writes: > >Is it possible to allocate a file to be used as swap as /dev/md0 and then >allocate a filesystem (namely /tmp) with /dev/md1 with backingstore set to swap? > >Trying this hung the system on seemingly infinite disk wait. Once you start to do things like this, you usually get what you ask for :-) That said, in theory you should not get into trouble this way, but there may be something I overlook... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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