Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:41:59 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: HATANOU Tomomi <hatanou@infolab.ne.jp> Cc: petef@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/32060: New port: mkfile(8) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200112250342.fBP3gYL02181@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Dec 2001 12:36:28 %2B0900." <200112250336.MAA89349@mercury.infolab.ne.jp>
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In message <200112250336.MAA89349@mercury.infolab.ne.jp>, HATANOU
Tomomi writes
:
> >Is this necessary? I mean, the port works for me in making a file, but how
> is
> >this useful? I can't swapon(8) a regular file, I don't know what else I'd d
> o
> >with it.
>
> On FreeBSD, we have to use vn(4) interface to swap on
> regular files. vnconfig(8) with 'swap' option can be
> used instead of swapon(8), as seen in vnconfig(8) manual
> pages.
>
> In addition, FreeBSD systems can serve swap files to
> other systems, such as SunOS, over NFS. In such
> situations, mkfile(8) will help system administrators, I
> think.
You can do the same thing with dd, e.g.
dd if=/dev/zero of=file count=100 bs=1m
What will mkfile do that dd won't?
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