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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:

> > [About having swap on NTFS volume?] No, i wouldn't... Though this seemed
> > to work 2 years ago, It may seriously harm your NTFS volume. Sorry...
> 
> Why so? What's wrong if I create large file with w2k and then use it with
> FreeBSD? Or some sort of auto-defragmentation can then spoil anything?
> 
Because the NTFS driver write support is not stable. Nobody ever reported
he even tried writing, though I tested it teo years ago.

> (Actually, I would like to use it as temporary user space, i.e.
> UFS-formatted partition).
> 
It's OK to use vn over NTFS's file, you can do what you want with vn
device later. This is almost the only way you can use driver's write
support, beacuse it doesn't support file size change, directory changes,
etc...

Bye!


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