Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:11:43 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsclient bootp_subr.c nfs_diskless.c nfs_vfsops.c nfsdiskless.h Message-ID: <18441.1061017903@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:47:53 %2B1000." <20030816024753.GA74853@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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In message <20030816024753.GA74853@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy wri tes: >[Redirected to -hackers because this isn't directly relevant to the > actual code committed] > >On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:04:02AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Suggested replacement command sequence on the client: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=1 oseek=100000 >> swapon /swapfile > >This results in a sparse swapfile. You don't _have_ to make it a sparse file, you are free to preallocate the entire file if that is important to you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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