From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Apr 6 21:25:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (relay.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.224.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C0537B422; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 21:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru) Received: from astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (astro.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.229.130]) by relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA15612; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:25:37 +0400 (MSD) Received: by astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.3/Clnt-2.14-AS-eef) id IAA63496; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:25:27 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:25:27 +0400 (MSD) From: Alexey Koptsevich To: "Semen A. Ustimenko" Cc: fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ntfs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > > > [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... > 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... Sorry, I cannot tell the difference between these two cases! Why is it safe to use 'vn device later' but harmful to swap to this device? Thanks, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message