From owner-freebsd-small Fri Dec 3 17:45:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from massive.geek.edu (massive.geek.edu [216.73.11.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6355152FC for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:45:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jontow@massive.geek.edu) Received: (from jontow@localhost) by massive.geek.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id UAA59431; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:45:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jontow) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:45:59 -0500 From: Jonathan Towne To: John Lundin Jr Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your builds Message-ID: <19991203204559.A59405@massve.geek.edu> References: <19991203155003.A50875@massve.geek.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from John Lundin Jr on Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 08:34:56PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Have you looked into whether you can use a Windoze file as swap > and auxiliary filesystem container? Haven't set up an experiment > yet. I'm told linux can do it. Be nice to eliminate NFS, even if > the pc has to slurp a lot more across the network at first. Hey! great idea, I hadn't thought about trying to use the windows swapfile that was already available.. this might just work, if I went along and created it as a vnode device, i believe i might just try this tonight and post the results later :) -- Jonathan Towne jontow@massive.geek.edu/wrongway@slic.com Systems Administrator http://massive.geek.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s: a--- C+++ UB++++ P L- E--- W--- N++ o K w--- O-- M V- PS PE Y-- PGP- t+ 5 X+ R+ tv- b+ DI+ D++ G e- h-- r-- y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message