From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum swap space?
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:43:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030607224312.GJ8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE264C5.6060703@zytor.com>
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.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-07 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-07 8:55 Maximum swap space? Colin Paul Adams
2003-06-07 17:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-06-07 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-07 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 0:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 1:28 ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-08 1:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-08 6:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-07 21:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-07 22:43 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-06-07 22:28 ` Rik van Riel
2003-06-10 19:00 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-06-10 19:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
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2003-06-08 22:51 Andries.Brouwer
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