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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!ninja!ulka.zso.dec.com!alan From: alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Adding Swapspace ?? Message-ID: <1992Oct23.192806.22485@ninja.zso.dec.com> Date: 23 Oct 92 19:28:06 GMT References: <Bw7H4L.LLB@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <1992Oct16.162729.3701@ninja.zso.dec.com> <1992Oct16.201806.21519@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bw8Mw5.IFC@pix.com> Sender: jones@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Reply-To: alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: ulka.zso.dec.com > That said, I think swaping on a file may be a good idea for (a) a stopgap >fix, and (b) it may make us design a filesystem that works well for >swap-like files, and (c) if you get a filesystem that does disk striping >wouldn't you want swap on it? (Please don't try to put swap on a >auto-compressing filesystem 'tho) I believe that if you define secondary swap space it will "stripe" the access to them. You can also do striping at the "pesudo-device" level and configure swap on such a device (without the file system inbetween). Alan