Re: Help with swapon(8)

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1989 21:07

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 > What happens is that the kernel builds a table of swap devices at compile
 > time. When the system is booted, it reads the geometry of these devices
 > and fills in the block counts. You can't add devies to the generic swap
 > kernel because it hits the end of the device table.

"Fixed in 4.0."  No such table exists in 4.0.

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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Help with swapon(8)
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