Re: [announce] swap mini-howto

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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:

| On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:58:27PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|
| > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/swap-mini-howto.txt
|
| Maybe either refer to 'man mkswap' or add a sentence
| about versions. (If you boot both 2.0 and 2.2 then
| use mkswap -v0 to get swap space also 2.0 can use.)
Will do.

BTW, my current (maybe outdated?)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...

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~Randy
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