From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 4 8: 4:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E55637B722 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f34F4GN07244; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:04:16 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Bristow Cc: Jason Victor , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A novel idea.... Message-ID: <20010404080416.T12164@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010404121602.29670.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com> <20010404075404.P12164@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010404160208.A10031@lindt.urgle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010404160208.A10031@lindt.urgle.com>; from mike@urgle.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:02:08PM +0100 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mike Bristow [010404 08:02] wrote: > 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. or just make another vn and mount it. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message