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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:36:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        slava revutchi <sl@zeus.dnt.md>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on one slice
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.991122203358.5866A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19991122173853.04400@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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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



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