From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] signals and blocked in I/O
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 19:58:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c7b34b5-0a5c-3080-6cd0-ff451c2f162d@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712051104390.99186@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On 12/4/2017 7:49 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> [ Swap files ]
>
>> Pages are pages. The filesystem handles the details for the offset of
>> each one. There's no contiguous on disk requirement.
>
> I've used at least one *ix OS that required it be both contiguous and
> pre-allocated; Slowaris?
>
Nope, unless mkfile is is guaranteed to give you contiguous space:
# uname -a
SunOS vmsol8 5.8 Generic_108529-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
# mkfile 100m a.a
# swap -a /a.a
# swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/dsk/c0d0s1 102,1 8 1048936 1048896
/a.a - 8 204792 204792
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-01 15:44 Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 15:53 ` Dan Cross
2017-12-01 16:11 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-01 16:18 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 16:33 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-01 17:26 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 19:10 ` Chris Torek
2017-12-01 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-01 21:33 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-01 22:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 23:03 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-01 23:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-01 23:42 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-02 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-02 1:40 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-03 13:50 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-04 16:36 ` arnold
2017-12-04 16:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-04 17:19 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-05 2:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-04 22:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-04 22:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-04 22:56 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-05 0:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-05 0:58 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-12-05 2:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-05 2:54 ` Clem cole
2017-12-02 14:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-01 16:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
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