Re: swap
From: Anthony Mandic (oc_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/29/03
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:33:30 +1000
newbie wrote:
>
> I am currently confused on how Solaris is able to map the swap device to
> the swap mount point.
>
> Of course, swap -a lets you specify that the device / slice is for swap.
>
> But in /etc/vfstab:
>
> swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
>
> You do not actually say that /tmp will use /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1.
> Where is the mapping of /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 <----> /tmp stored ?
>
> ... or is it that you tell it what devices / slices you want to use for
> swap, and Solaris will use whatever devices / slices are available for
> swap when you use tmpfs ? In this case, where does Solaris store its
> list of swap devices / slices ?
Doing a "grep swap /etc/vfstab" may make things a tad clearer for
you. The swap and tmpfs man pages should also prove enlightening.
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