Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:26:07 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD Message-ID: <47AAB28F.10705@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <200802070818.45400.wundram@beenic.net> References: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080207151415.06393db1@meijome.net> <47AAA5F0.4090803@highperformance.net> <200802070818.45400.wundram@beenic.net>
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Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: >> Norberto Meijome wrote: >>> But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? >> One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That way >> you wouldn't need to use any disc space. As a plus, the performance >> would be way better than disc. > > Ahem, sorry, that's just plain stupid. Either the md system is backed up by > RAM (in which case you don't need the swap anyway; why'd you want to access > RAM by putting it in a swap on an md in RAM?), or it's backed up by swap, in > which case you have a chicken and egg problem. > Or it's backed by a file (-t vnode, which is implicated by -f). I have used files for swap, just to see weather it works, others have done it because they had to.
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