On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:21, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <Pine.NEB.4.53.0309041805520.19144@rivendell.starwolf.com>, Greywolf
>  writes:
> >Uses:  mkfile is good for creating blank files for use with vnconfig
> >and as NFS swap spaces, at least.  I'm sure that creative minds can come
> >up with others.
> 
> Sounds useful.  Maybe it should be folded into mknod, though, since that's
> the "I want to create a new file" program?  :)

If this does make the cut, let me know and before you commit it, I'll
submit patches to documentation (of course, they won't apply until the
next release).  I'm assuming this could be used for simplifying
"swap-on-file" as such, netbooting nfs swap, etc.  What else?

-lava