From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 17 10:34:11 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 4993637B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rms21.rommon.net (rms21.rommon.net [193.64.42.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41CB43F3F for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:34:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from PHE (h93.vuokselantie10.fi [193.64.42.147]) by rms21.rommon.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h2HIY5m4002842; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:34:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <00db01c2ecb3$ca4ed3e0$932a40c1@PHE> From: "Petri Helenius" To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" Cc: References: <12115.1047917858@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: md Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:34:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 > > Once you start to do things like this, you usually get what you ask > for :-) This kind of happened since I first configured more swap from a file and were happy for a while. Then I realized that I´m running out of space in /tmp (which used to be swap-backed memory filesystem in the 4.X days) and did the obvious, generate swap based memory filesystem. > > That said, in theory you should not get into trouble this way, but there > may be something I overlook... > As a datapoint, I have some swap which is "regular" swap (256M) and then 2G off a file. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message