Re: [announce] swap mini-howto

Andries Brouwer
2002-11-02T11:13:07Z

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:25:33PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> BTW, my current (maybe outdated?) mkswap.8 page says:
> Presently, Linux allows 8 swap areas. The areas in use
> can be seen in the file /proc/swaps (since 2.1.25).
>
> However, the current (2.5) source code supports 32 swap areas.
> I don't know when this was changed...

It was changed in 2.4.10.

Andries