Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263861AbTFGWFq (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:05:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263865AbTFGWFq (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:05:46 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:4773 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263861AbTFGWFp (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:05:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3EE264C5.6060703@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 15:18:45 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap space? References: <33435.4.64.196.31.1055008200.squirrel@www.osdl.org> <20030607214950.GI8978@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20030607214950.GI8978@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 18 William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > The 2GB limit is 100% userspace; distros are already shipping the > mkswap(8) fixes (both RH & UL anyway). > Presumably it means they have defined a new swap format and have changed swapon(8) as well. This should be rolled back into util-linux if they aren't already. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/