From owner-freebsd-small Sat Dec 4 14:33:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [205.181.254.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2299F14CB0 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chip@eboai.org) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07CD35AF2; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:33:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:33:03 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your builds Message-ID: <19991204173303.A27807@hindenburg.eboai.org> Reply-To: chip@eboai.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199912040925.LAA12077@gratis.grondar.za> <199912042136.NAA04735@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199912042136.NAA04735@mass.cdrom.com> X-Real-OS: FreeBSD hindenburg.eboai.org 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 01:36:40PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > 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. Couldn't it be done via the vn driver by mounting the FAT partition containing the swapfile, then using vn to map the file to a disk device, then mounting it as swap? -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ Geek code available via finger PGP key available on my web page On IRC via EFnet as Magus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message