Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:43:12 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Maximum swap space? |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The 2GB limit is 100% userspace; distros are already shipping the >> mkswap(8) fixes (both RH & UL anyway).
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:18:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Presumably it means they have defined a new swap format and have changed > swapon(8) as well. This should be rolled back into util-linux if they > aren't already.
The swap format (or at least the header) doesn't appear to depend on byte offsets that I can tell, so I don't see any need for it to change. I'm not entirely sure what they've done for swapon(8) or mkswap(8), though I could probably bang out an equivalent or fish out their patches if pressed.
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