From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 17 8:17:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918A637B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30EA43FA3 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:17:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2HGHcYl012116; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:17:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: "Petri Helenius" Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: md From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:48:13 +0200." <008601c2ec9c$9ea015e0$932a40c1@PHE> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:17:38 +0100 Message-ID: <12115.1047917858@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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