Re: Maximum swap space?

William Lee Irwin III
2003-06-07T22:31:01Z

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