I don't think there's any reason to continue to mention behavior of kernels older than 10 years. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- disk-utils/mkswap.8 | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 index 68cc40b..e08aa03 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 @@ -103,21 +103,13 @@ Display version information and exit. .SH NOTES The maximum useful size of a swap area depends on the architecture and the kernel version. -It is roughly 2GiB on i386, PPC, m68k and ARM, 1GiB on sparc, 512MiB on mips, -128GiB on alpha, and 3TiB on sparc64. For kernels after 2.3.3 (May 1999) there is no -such limitation. The maximum number of the pages that is possible to address by swap area header is 4294967295 (UINT_MAX). The remaining space on the swap device is ignored. -Note that before version 2.1.117 the kernel allocated one byte for each page, -while it now allocates two bytes, so that taking into use a swap area of 2 GiB -might require 2 MiB of kernel memory. - -Presently, Linux allows 32 swap areas (this was 8 before Linux 2.4.10 (Sep 2001)). +Presently, Linux allows 32 swap areas. The areas in use can be seen in the file .I /proc/swaps -(since 2.1.25 (Sep 1997)). .B mkswap refuses areas smaller than 10 pages. -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
