Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:12:49 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <20020710001249.GB541@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <3D2B6A45.86B061E7@mindspring.com> References: <20020709161044.C77578-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> <3D2B6A45.86B061E7@mindspring.com>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > You don't have to dump on your swap. It's just convenient to do. > You can actually dump on any raw partition which is large enough. > > If FreeBSD intrinsically handled "suspend to disk", then you would > need something seperate from swap, anyway. But in the "suspend to disk" case, you can assume you have a non-braindead kernel. Couldn't you just allocate the blocks in the filesystem and write your image? Sure, it would be a bit slower than using a dedicated partition, but nobody said "suspend to disk" is a good idea anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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