Re: swap space for a memory based filesystem

[jdolecek%NetBSD.org@localhost (Jaromir Dolecek)]

nmahajan%hss.hns.com@localhost wrote:
> We have a system which boots using memory based file system,
> i.e we have a ramdisk having some file system mounted on it and parameters
> for it passed via kernel options file ..
> but I couldnt find any option / way to define swap partition and space for
> same ..
> could some one please tell me how to declare and allocate space for swap
> for it ?
> I couldnt find any  relavant option in swapctl and swapon ..  ?

It's probably not very useful to have swap on MFS - it just wastes
additional memory for swap structures. You can safely run without
any swap configured.

Jaromir
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