From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 08:16:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA08982 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:16:05 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA08658 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:15:27 -0700 Received: from gemini ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14748(3)>; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:08:13 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14959; Thu, 31 Aug 95 11:08:06 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29077; Thu, 31 Aug 95 11:08:04 EDT Message-Id: <9508311508.AA29077@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: can swap space be shared with other OSes? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:08:03 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Linux has a problem with certain extended partitions (i.e. if you delete the first one, it doesn't see anything after that). While I'm working with partitions, I also want to be able to recognize bsd disk slices as several devices (and perhaps port a ffs driver to linux). (I already hacked up the linux fdisk to recognize bsd partitions). Can the swap space for bsd be shared by bsd/windows/linux? There's a strategy for sharing swap space on linux/windows... Also, is there interest in getting an ext2 driver on freebsd (to read linux partitions). I think the key to running multiple OSes is easy interoptability (even if the drivers are only read only). marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001 marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom