From owner-freebsd-small Sat Dec 4 13:35:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles545.castles.com [208.214.165.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC8715157; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 13:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04735; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 13:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912042136.NAA04735@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mark Murray Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your builds In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:25:05 +0200." <199912040925.LAA12077@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 13:36:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. > > Don't ask me for details, as I don't have them anymore; years ago > someone posted a recipe which showed how he made a separate partition > for his Windoze swap file, then frobbed his disklabel to fit the > FreeBSD swap partition completely inside the Windoze swap file. > > It was quite messy but doable, and it worked. Only for very old versions of Windows where the swapfile can't be fragmented. I wrote a disk-like device driver that exported a disk device that mapped exactly onto your Windows swapfile, but that was just as W95 was taking off, and the swapfile stopped being so useful. -- \\ 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