Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 13:36:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your builds Message-ID: <199912042136.NAA04735@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:25:05 %2B0200." <199912040925.LAA12077@gratis.grondar.za>
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> > 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. > > Don't ask me for details, as I don't have them anymore; years ago > someone posted a recipe which showed how he made a separate partition > for his Windoze swap file, then frobbed his disklabel to fit the > FreeBSD swap partition completely inside the Windoze swap file. > > It was quite messy but doable, and it worked. Only for very old versions of Windows where the swapfile can't be fragmented. I wrote a disk-like device driver that exported a disk device that mapped exactly onto your Windows swapfile, but that was just as W95 was taking off, and the swapfile stopped being so useful. -- \\ 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
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