Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:51:48 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can Linux/FreeBSD share swap? Message-ID: <m0vwgar-000QdoC@bloke.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:29:40 -0800." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970206102721.829E-100000@localhost> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970206102721.829E-100000@localhost>
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[yes, I'm a little behind...]
Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> This is trickier than it sounds. FreeBSD's swap space is located within
> it's own slice, likewise for Linux. The problem is that one system can't
> read the other's disklabel, so it can't figure out just where the swap is.
I seem to have this vague recollection of doing this before dropping the Linux
boot stuff altogether. I think I'd modified some of the FreeBSD /etc/rc*
file(s) to run 'disklabel' to put a new one down on a slice, then turn on
swapping to the swap partition contained therein. Or something like that...
> This question has been asked before, take a look through the mail
> archives.
Yes...that's where I would've gotten the hints, though I can't remember a
subject line to go look for...seem to have a vague memory that Joerg Wunsch
was involved in the discussion, but I'm not sure.
> A vn swapspace on ext2fs? That might be pushing it since ext2fs support
> isn't exactly foolproof, and I don't know if vn swap is even supported on
> non-FFS filesystems.
I've seen descriptions of using a vn swapspace on a msdosfs (now, isn't THAT
scary!) - trying to overlay an NT or Windoze swap file; but I don't recall
if the descriptions were of theory or success.
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