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Re: How to share paging file between NetBsd and Windows 7?



In article 
<CAN+FjHNaKxUqE=uWrut1w540Xr1iEs+BbPmq_rbAiasjVJQ9eQ%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Benny Siegert  <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ottavio Caruso
><ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 1) Install fuse-ntfs-3g and mount the existing Windows page file on Netbsd
>
>That's a definite No, I would say. The NTFS-3G driver is probably not
>stable enough, and you may run into all kinds of random problems.

Yes, but you can mount_ntfs locally readwrite, and point the swap file to
the windows pagefile. I believe that should work because the write code for
NTFS is complete but the block allocation and freeing code is missing, but
you don't need that.

christos



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