Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:07:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swapon some regular file Message-ID: <3DA205B5.2ED5548@mindspring.com> References: <20021007212545.C363B2A88D@canning.wemm.org> <200210071735.00722.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > For users' convenience, the creation of the md or vn devices can > be put into swapon(8)... Please don't. Please write a shell script, instead. Commands with side effects, especially one like requiring drivers that may not be compiled into your kernel, are a bad idea. It would be a *much* better idea to create a file_pager.c, which would let us go back to your original suggestion. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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