Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:57:42 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jehamby@lightside.com, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good news -- pipe stuff Message-ID: <199602010157.MAA03583@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Both boxes are running 2.1.0-RELEASE. If it is not too difficult, I >would be REALLY grateful if we could add functionality to add swapfiles >and swap partitions to a running system. Even better would be the This is standard functionality in 2.1. Use the vn driver for files... >ability to remove the swapfile without rebooting. Linux (and most >SVR4's) have had this functionality for a LONG time. As it is, our BSD Still missing. >limitation of only swapping to the b slice of any particular partition is >EXTREMELY frustrating in such situations where extra swap is temporarily >needed. 2.1 doesn't have this limitation. I spent a minute checking this in -current :-). Result: Device 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd0b 33280 1512 31704 5% Interleaved /dev/vn0h 2048 1472 512 74% Interleaved Total 35200 2984 32216 8% This is for a fully labeled vn0 (vn0h is a bogus alias for vn0b if labels aren't enabled). Bruce
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