Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Ideas for memory management hackers (2) | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 1997 01:10:26 +0200 (EET) | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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> From: Evan Jeffrey <ejeffrey@utrek.ml.org> ... > I think it would be better to create a "new" swapfile type for > 128 (or > 512) MB swap areas, where the swap area signature (SWAP-SPACE ?) would be > replaced by something like "NEW-SWAPXX" where XX is a short int indicating > the number of bitmap blocks at the beginning of this swap area. This give > us an ~8 TB theoretical limit, which is pretty big.
Theorethically nice, but I am such a person who has a habit of jumping back and forth between radically different kernel versions (2.0.x and 2.1.x!), and therefore I do prefer methods that don't require me do radical operations at system boot; like "mkswap" at each boot on which even the "mkswap" should recognize what the system understands at the moment...
OTOH, the label does not need info regarding partition (or swap- file) size, but it well might need info of page size used at the swap file. (If you move the disk from one host to another for any reason.. Naeh, way long shots such...)
> Evan
/Matti Aarnio
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