Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You don't have to dump on your swap. It's just convenient to do. > You can actually dump on any raw partition which is large enough. > > If FreeBSD intrinsically handled "suspend to disk", then you would > need something seperate from swap, anyway.
But in the "suspend to disk" case, you can assume you have a non-braindead kernel. Couldn't you just allocate the blocks in the filesystem and write your image? Sure, it would be a bit slower than using a dedicated partition, but nobody said "suspend to disk" is a good idea anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
