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Date:      Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:14:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swapon, ccd: device not configure, eh what? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.95.980726125536.8560A-100000@orion.aye.net>
In-Reply-To: <199807261617.LAA08436@bone.nectar.com>

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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Jacques Vidrine wrote:

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> On 26 July 1998 at 1:09, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> > Never attempt to swap on the "whole disk".

So if you had a system doing heavy I/O that kept *all* of its
disk that had filesystems busy it would be a bad idea to
dedicate a seperate disk to swap?

> 
> Can I disklabel a ccd? I didn't think that I could, for some
> reason.

Well if you think about it, a ccd is a logical organization of
slices of disks that are already disklabeled.

> 
> > And why on earth do you want to swap on a ccd?  Just swap onto its 
> > components individually, and take advantage of the swap interleave.
> 
> Oh, just for the hell of it.  Because there is a CCDF_SWAP flag.
> To see if it worked as documented. etc.
> If it doesn't work, it needs to be fixed or ``undocumented''.
> 
> Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> 
> 
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