On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:38:59 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:

 > Is there now any use for swap-filesystems, hence there are vnd-swapfiles 
 > and these can be tuned and have variable size at least between the 
 > boot's?

Swap devices are still useful, yes.  It's likely that you'll get slightly
better performance swapping directly to a fast disk, rather than to a file,
goinh through the file system, then to the fast disk.

However, NetBSD can swap to files directly now, without vnd.  Are you
not using NetBSD-current?

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