Subject: Re: ffs fragmentation
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/14/1999 13:37:33
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:27:54PM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > The advantages of DynaSwap are:
> > 
> >    8< snip >8
> >
> > (3) Large (up to the size of unallocated disk space) arrays enable huge
> >     datasets.

I sure wouldn't want to use a system where one user who was a memory hog
could cause all available disk space to be allocated for his swapping,
while I couldn't save a small file that I'd been editting for the last
hour or so.


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