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To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:47:53 +1000."
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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:11:43 +0200
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsclient bootp_subr.c nfs_diskless.c
	nfs_vfsops.c nfsdiskless.h 
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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.

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