From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 26 10:24:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13500 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles247.castles.com [208.214.165.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13486 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10982; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807261723.KAA10982@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "B. Richardson" cc: Jacques Vidrine , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swapon, ccd: device not configure, eh what? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:14:53 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:23:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On 26 July 1998 at 1:09, Mike Smith 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