Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:23:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net> Cc: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swapon, ccd: device not configure, eh what? Message-ID: <199807261723.KAA10982@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:14:53 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.95.980726125536.8560A-100000@orion.aye.net>
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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? No. Note that "whole disk" was quoted, implying a different meaning, in this case the "whole disk partition". Doing anything with the 'c' partition is generally a Bad Idea. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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