Re: max swap ?

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: max swap ?
	Date: Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:42:15PM +0100

In reply to:Igor Mozetic

Quoting Igor Mozetic(igor.mozetic@uni-mb.si):
>| 
>| Does anybody know what is the maximum number of swap files
>| (or partitions) and their maximum size in 2.2 kernels ?
>| I vaguely remember that for 2.0 it was 16 times a 128MB,
>| but couldn't find anything in 2.2.13 documentation.
>| 

>From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
--quote--
   Among other changes made in the development of Linux kernel 2.2, the
128 meg limit on IA32 swap partition sizes has been eliminated.  To use
larger swap spaces, you need the new mkswap found in util-linux.  You
also need to upgrade util-linux to get the latest version of mount.
--end quote--

HTH
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