Re: Sharing swap with FreeBSD
Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 06:46:56PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> > There is a howto that tells how Linux and FreeBSD can share swap:
> > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Linux+FreeBSD.html
> > I want to do this with the Hurd. I know the Hurd supports ufs, but does it
> > recognize BSD disklabels?
>
> GNU Mach should be able to read disklabels.
>
> About the swap partitions: Neither BSD nor the Hurd needs a special format,
> so you can just add the BSD swap partition to /etc/fstab on your Hurd.
>
> The Hurd can also recognize and honour a Linux swap signature, but it is not
> necessary. There are no relevant size limits either.
>
> In short, in this respect BSD and GNU Mach/Hurd are very similar :)
^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, not quite. The Hurd can use Linux swap partitions, but *BSD
cannot use Linux swap partitions, because they are not `configured'!
--
Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>
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