Subject: Re: kern/6652: swapping to a sparse file fails unpredictably.
To: None <marc@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/04/1999 17:11:51
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:23:33 -0500 (EST)
marc@netbsd.org wrote:
> >How-To-Repeat:
>
> create a sparse file
> swapctl -a /sparsefile
> do something which tries to page into the sparse file
I would say that any attempt to swapon to a sparse file should fail
with EINVAL. Same goes for the vnd code.
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