From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 8 21:41:58 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8396C14E9A; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from d146.syd2.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20167; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:43:45 +1000 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:41:37 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Greg Lehey Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_swap.c In-Reply-To: <19991009094543.R78191@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I'm concerned about this change. It sounds like "if it's broke, stop > using it" rather than a real fix. I can't think of a use for reading > for swap, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. It's a case of "it's been broken for almost a year, but no one noticed because it hasn't been used for several years". libkvm's use of /dev/drum has been replaced by use of procfs (*), and nothing else seems to have used /dev/drum for several^2 years. (*) If procfs is not mounted, or otherwise unavailable (e.g. for ps on dead kernels), then libkvm's use of swapfiles has been broken without replacement. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message