Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 16:21:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can swap space be shared with other OSes? Message-ID: <199508312321.QAA01188@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199508311715.KAA22960@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 31, 95 10:15:54 am
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> > > While I'm working with partitions, I also want to be able to recognize > > bsd disk slices as several devices (and perhaps port a ffs driver to > > linux). (I already hacked up the linux fdisk to recognize bsd partitions). > > > > Can the swap space for bsd be shared by bsd/windows/linux? > > > > There's a strategy for sharing swap space on linux/windows... > > There's a similar one for BSD: mount the DOS drive, configure a vn device > using vnconfig, and use it as swap. > > I believe a similar scheme would work for an unknown partition ID, for > instance the Linux swap -- assuming each DOS partition gets a logical > device regardless of whether we recognize the ID or not. This is > something that should be done if it hasn't been already. I believe it will work.. swapon /dev/sd0s3 would swap onto the 3rd slice... if that was the linux swap slice..... > > > > Also, is there interest in getting an ext2 driver on freebsd (to read > > linux partitions). > > I believe someone is working on this and recently reported some success > to the -current list (that might have been you, though, so if it was, no it was I believe John Dyson.. > then "yes!"). >
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