From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 4 8: 2:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lindt.urgle.com (lindt.urgle.com [62.49.202.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A2337B724 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:02:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@urgle.com) Received: from mike by lindt.urgle.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14konQ-0002jm-00; Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:02:08 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:02:08 +0100 From: Mike Bristow To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jason Victor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A novel idea.... Message-ID: <20010404160208.A10031@lindt.urgle.com> References: <20010404121602.29670.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com> <20010404075404.P12164@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010404075404.P12164@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700 X-Rated: Vince Foster, radar, Mossad Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:54:04AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > a) use EXT2 as a backing filesystem > b) use a file in EXT2/msdosfs as a backing node for a virtual > device: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html > and create a filesystem in that. That's a very good idea. Performance would probably suck rocks. OTOH, if you suddenly need to install X and so need another 200M, growfs (available in -current only) might enable you to grow your backing file, then grow the filesystem. -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message