port-mac68k: Re: CD-ROM format, was Proverbial Questionsd

Subject: Re: CD-ROM format, was Proverbial Questionsd
To: Henry B. Hotz <henry.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/15/1996 19:54:42

> I would love to be able to re-use my MacOS Swap partition (which is full of
> a single VM file) as a BSD swap partition.

This would be cool, and might be theoretically possible if that file is
one unbroken range of blocks.  The challenge is then describing that
swap space to the kernel.  Currently, the kernel expects swap to take
up an entire device...  Hmmm...  I think that gives us a couple of
options...

-allen

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