From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 19:52:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11160 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:52:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bloke.statsci.com (bloke.statsci.com [206.63.206.184]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA11153 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:52:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from statsci.com [127.0.0.1] with smtp by bloke.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vwgar-000QdoC; Mon, 17 Feb 97 19:51 PST Message-Id: To: Doug White cc: Jonathan Sturges , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can Linux/FreeBSD share swap? References: In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:29:40 -0800." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <19324.856237908.1@statsci.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:51:48 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [yes, I'm a little behind...] Doug White 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. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org