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Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/mkswap.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkswap.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 index 3463acc2a..52af99c41 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkswap.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkswap.8 @@ -76,9 +76,12 @@ while the bad blocks, if any, can simply be listed. Nobody wants to use a swap space with hundreds of bad blocks. (I would not even use a swap space with 1 bad block.) In the new style swap area this is precisely what is done. -The maximum useful size of a swap area now depends on the architecture. + +The maximum useful size of a swap area depends on the architecture and +the kernel version. It is roughly 2GiB on i386, PPC, m68k, ARM, 1GiB on sparc, 512MiB on mips, -128GiB on alpha and 3TiB on sparc64. +128GiB on alpha and 3TiB on sparc64. For kernels after 2.3.3 there is no +such limitation. Note that before 2.1.117 the kernel allocated one byte for each page, while it now allocates two bytes, so that taking a swap area of 2 GiB |