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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:12:49 -0700
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems
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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.

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