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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...

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