Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:26:58 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnconfig + swap with sparse files Message-ID: <9805261327.aa21737@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 May 1998 20:17:26 %2B0200." <xzpk97amczt.fsf@bilskirnir.ifi.uio.no>
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> A sparse file cannot possibly work as swap since it does not have any > space allocate to it on the disk, and you *want* to allocate space on > the disk - where else are you going to swap out your data? Actually - it will work if you are swaping over NFS, (or at least did the last time I made swap files for our xterminals). Though I admit this is quite different. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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