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Subject: Re: vnconfig + swap with sparse files 
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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:26:58 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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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.

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