Re: ext2 problems on fast-wide SCSI-2

Stephen Tweedie (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Tue, 7 May 1996 17:49:15 +0100


Hi,

Mishelle Bradford writes:

> Swap partitions can only be a max of 16MB in size, last I heard, and there
> can be a total of 8 swap partitions.

Nope. The current limit is 128MB per swap partition --- we use a
single page (4K) to hold the lock map, with one bit required per 4MB
of swap, which works out at 4096*8*4k = 128MB.

Cheers,
Stephen.

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Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.