gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@cs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:12:37AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > On 08/16/2000 16:24:57, Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > > There is already support for swapping to a vnode filesystem.  Sounds
> > > like what you should be doing is defining the vnode calls to swap
> > > page data, not modifying UVM itself.
> > 
> > Now, maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how vnodes
> > help my situation.
> 
> And further, from vnd(4):
> 
> BUGS
>      The vnd driver does not work if the file does not reside in a local
>      filesystem.
> 
> Definitely not making me think I'm interested in the vnode pager..

Swapping to a regular file is _not_ related to the vnd(4) driver.
(And vnd(4) is not the vnode pager.)


-kjk