From owner-freebsd-small Sat Dec 4 0:27:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF6D14D64 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA00636; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:26:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912040826.AAA00636@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jonathan Towne Cc: John Lundin Jr , freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your builds In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Dec 1999 20:45:59 EST." <19991203204559.A59405@massve.geek.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 00:26:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 :) You can do it, but performance sucks. I'm led to believe that later versions of windows also grow and shrink the swapfile, so it's not so straightforward anymore. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message