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From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MFS - Why?
Date: 5 Jun 1996 15:35:25 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Nick Sayer
wrote on 01 Jun (in article <nqcignn@quack.kfu.com>):
=>You can use the vnode driver (see vnconfig(8)) to allow swapping into a
=>regular file. It may not be quite as convenient as some other OSs,
=>but it certainly solves the problem.
=
=How? Once you add a swap area you can't remove it. So you can't
=prepare for a large job by adding temporary extra swap, do the work
=and then remove and dispose of this extra swap. That would be the
=only equivalent behavior. Solaris 2.x can do this, but FreeBSD can't.
=And in any case this behavior is not automatic.
Don't know about Solaris, but in WinNT or Win95 you can not ALTER
the swap space without a reboot. On FreeBSD you can easily increase
it (but can not reduce yet).
=Don't get me wrong -- I still prefer FreeBSD to the alternatives,
=but not being able to 'swapoff' is a bit of a bummer.
Agreed!
-mi
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