Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:43:12 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum swap space?
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The 2GB limit is 100% userspace; distros are already shipping the
>> mkswap(8) fixes (both RH & UL anyway).

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:18:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

The swap format (or at least the header) doesn't appear to depend on
byte offsets that I can tell, so I don't see any need for it to change.
I'm not entirely sure what they've done for swapon(8) or mkswap(8),
though I could probably bang out an equivalent or fish out their
patches if pressed.


-- wli
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