Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 00:26:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com> Cc: John Lundin Jr <lundin@snark.richmond.edu>, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your builds Message-ID: <199912040826.AAA00636@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Dec 1999 20:45:59 EST." <19991203204559.A59405@massve.geek.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199912040826.AAA00636>