Well, one exception: I would _not_ recommend swapping to a lofi block device, esp not one based on a tmpfs file! That latter case is (a) useless, since it's not actually adding any swap, and (b) is just begging for a deadlock or worse. The system may not prevent you from doing it, either; I just did (on a Solaris 8 workstation), but didn't push it to the point of _using_ the swap on the lofi device on top of the tmpfs file, so I got all that torn down again without crashing my workstation.
(Actually, as long as one didn't create a sparse file with mkfile -n, I suppose it _might_ not lock or crash the system to swap via a lofi device based on a tmpfs file, but since it doesn't actually provide more swap space, I'm having a hard time imagining any good reason to do it at present.) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
