Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:44:25 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [hackers] Re: Large MFS on NFS-swap? Message-ID: <15001.21129.307283.198917@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <200102250644.f1P6iuL12016@earth.backplane.com> References: <15000.8884.6165.759008@trooper.velocet.net> <20010225042933.A508@cicely5.cicely.de> <200102250644.f1P6iuL12016@earth.backplane.com>
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>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes: Matt> Use the vn device to create a swap-backed filesystem. 'man Matt> vnconfig'. (In current VN functionality has been merged into MD Matt> and MD in swap-backed mode should be used instead ). If you Matt> turn softupdates on on the VN based filesystem, it should work Matt> quite nicely for small files and yet still be able to handle the Matt> very large files (assuming you have sufficient swap). Hmmm... I was just having a little fun, and I think that someone's using the wrong type of integer somewhere: [1:23:323]root@news:~> vnconfig -e -s labels -S 1t vn0 [1:24:324]root@news:~> disklabel -r -w vn0 auto [1:25:325]root@news:~> newfs /dev/vn0c preposterous size -2147483648 Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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