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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:42:33 +0000
From:      Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
To:        Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Creating swap based ramdisks from rc.initdiskless by default
Message-ID:  <a2b6592c0901220742j4f0fed0andd04eb03792c6a55@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49788F1B.7000600@fsn.hu>
References:  <4978853A.2000107@fsn.hu> <a2b6592c0901220705q5f30e292o9f555e464a8706b1@mail.gmail.com> <49788F1B.7000600@fsn.hu>

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2009/1/22 Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>:
> Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>>
>> 2009/1/22 Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So the question is: what is the rationale behind creating malloc backed
>>> disks by default, instead of swap-backed ones?
>>>
>>
>> Yes --- booting from DoC/CDROM/PXE with no HDD on the node...
>>
>
> Did you read my e-mail?

Yes, but why would you have swap enabled in the kernel on a system
that cannot possibly swap?

Cheers,
Igor :-)



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