From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 14 0: 1:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4F814ED6 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA06746; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199906140701.AAA06746@apollo.backplane.com> To: Joel Ray Holveck Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn swapfiles deleted while in use References: <86vhcr3bav.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :What, to the reckoning of the resident populace, would happen if :somebody were to rm a vnconfig'd swapfile while it was in use? : :Thanks, :joelh The system still has a reference to the file, even deleted, so all you would be doing would be removing its directory entry. On the otherhand, if you *truncate* the file or unconfigure the vn node, you will blow the system up when the system tries to swap something in or out on that file. -Matt Matthew Dillon :-- :Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org : Fourth law of programming: : Anything that can go wrong wi :sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message