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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 1995 01:48:02 +0800 (CST)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: any interest?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.950403014517.20912W-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
In-Reply-To: <199504020629.WAA24567@violet.berkeley.edu>

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On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> From: nils@guru.stgt.sub.org (Cornelis van der Laan)
[...]
> The usual way under SunOS is 'mkfile 4m /some/file'. This way
> no disk blocks are allocated until they are actually needed. 

    If we had a filesystem that dealt with sparse files correctly,
this would be a no-brainer (create a file, set the EOF to however far
you want).  Is there a requirement that swapfiles be contiguous under
FreeBSD?
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org




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