From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 7 15: 9:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A0337B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E70443E42 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0113.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.113] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17yg3u-0004t9-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:09:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3DA205B5.2ED5548@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:07:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swapon some regular file References: <20021007212545.C363B2A88D@canning.wemm.org> <200210071735.00722.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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