From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 18:51:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887D614E09 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:51:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA19945; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:49:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Greg Lehey Cc: slava revutchi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on one slice In-Reply-To: <19991122173853.04400@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Theoretically you could swap to a file (with some juggling), but > performance is terrible and I can't see any reason to want to do so. Is that really possible? If so, it would mean that the OS does not use any swap space before you set it up with vnconfig. By the way, I am wondering whether ALL disks should have a partition table and a MBR. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message