From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 0:36:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E09C37B403 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:36:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7S7a4b74242; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:36:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Mixtim" , Subject: RE: encrypted swap Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:36:04 -0700 Message-ID: <003401c12f94$178f0a00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010827221830.A92367@mixtim.homeip.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mixtim >Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:19 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: encrypted swap > > >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote: >> But I wonder why you want to encrypt swap, anyway; it would be dreadfully >> slow. > >OpenBSD has had it for some time now. Its not slow at all. > Hmmm - what's wrong with steering people to OpenBSD then that want this? If every time that OpenBSD comes out with a feature then FreeBSD emulates it, or vis-versa, then you have no differentiation between BSD variants and thus no point in having them. Is your goal to kill off OpenBSD? I have a phrase I often use in these sorts of situations: "There's things that you CAN do, and there's things that you SHOULD do" Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message