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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is smallest swap file size possible?
Date: 19 Dec 1996 07:36:22 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable J Wunsch
wrote on 18 Dec (in article <597d2a$ion@uriah.heep.sax.de>):
=...but it's not strictly ``forbidden'', i.e. you can start the machine
=without any swap. (Actually, it's starting without swap activated
=anyway, the activation happens via swapon(8) later.)
I recall, there was a work going on to enable taking some devices
OUT of the swap list... So that you can add some devices and later
stop swaping on them dynamicly without a reboot. Currently, AFAIK,
you can only go one direction -- adding. What is the status of this?
Thanks!
-mi
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