Date: 25 May 1998 20:17:26 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnconfig + swap with sparse files Message-ID: <xzpk97amczt.fsf@bilskirnir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 11:34:27 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980525112157.12110A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> writes: > I rebooted to stop swapping on the file, and modified my creation program > to drop a \0 at the beginning of each block. Sure enough, starting > swapping this time worked fine. What you should have done in the first place was: # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1048576 count=128 A sparse file cannot possibly work as swap since it does not have any space allocate to it on the disk, and you *want* to allocate space on the disk - where else are you going to swap out your data? -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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