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that's certainly what i do


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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:18:17 -0500 (CDT)

i am setting up multiple diskless cpu/auth servers and have a
question about swap files. is it proper to create a small filesystem
on the file server and allocate swap files from that location
or should i just create them off of "main" ?

i personally think that they should be placed on a seperate filesystem
that is not dumped. i just do not see the value in wasting dump space
on backups of swap files.

--sam

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