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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!usenet From: @atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Mike Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggestion for 3.0 :-) Date: 20 Jun 1995 07:50:57 GMT Organization: Genesis Software Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3s5ul1$sd3@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au> References: <3r7p9i$2ko@news.bu.edu> Reply-To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: exodus.atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 In <3r7p9i$2ko@news.bu.edu>, mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) writes: >How about using all (or a chunk) of Windows swap file space as an >additional swap space? I believe many of FreeBSD users also have MS >Windows installed. Or is it better gto wait for Win95 and see what kind of *puke* Actually, I'd say a remarkably small number of FreeBSD users have Windows installed. One significant problem is that most people in space-critical situations won't have very large swapfiles anyway, so you don't win anything. If you're really psychotic, you could try something like vnconfig /dev/vn0 /dos/386spart.par (excuse the syntax) swapon /dev/vn0 Performance will be poor, but that's par for the course. >filesystem they are going to use? Just a thought, sorry if I offended >anyone and you are tempted to say: "Why don't you do it!" Microsoft's next commercial abomination uses a semi-compatible version of the FAT filesystem, so nothing there has changed. > -mi ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[