On Sun, 19 Feb 1995, Chris G Demetriou wrote:

> > 	If its not a dumb question.. how do you export a swapfile under
> > 	netbsd - I guess I could configure the swap onto a local disk on
> > 	the client.. but I was just wondering if I've missed anything??
> 
> i always did it in what i'd consider the obvious way:
> 	(1) create the file (e.g. with dd from /dev/zero)
> 	(2) add it to /etc/exports
> 
	Thats what I thought I did (its been too long since I was soing 
	this under SunOS :)

	No problem creating the file - but then mountd wont accept a file
	in /etc/exports - in the exportfs below .../swap is the actual
	swapfile, and it complains 'Bad export lists line'. If I make .../swap
	a directory (& put the swapfile in it) it exports fine.	(Arg?)

/usr -ro electron
/export/electron/root /export/electron/swap -maproot=0 electron

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