From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dax.scot.redhat.com (sct@dax.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.242]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA10990 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:12:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:11:57 GMT Message-Id: <199901211511.PAA01303@dax.scot.redhat.com> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Large Swap In-Reply-To: <36A67DC2.DF27FFEE@sybase.com> References: <36A67DC2.DF27FFEE@sybase.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Jason Froebe Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: Hi, On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:07:14 -0600, Jason Froebe said: > Hi, > I'm sorry if I'm asking in the wrong mailing list but I'm in a > rush. A few days ago a message was posted to the linux-mm list > describing swap space > 128mb files. What exactly do I need for > this capability? The mkswap from a recent (2.9g is the current) "util-linux" package is all you need. The 2.1/2.2 kernel will automatically recognise a large swap partition once you have built one. > Also, if this is in the 2.1.x and 2.2.x has it been put in the 2.0.x > kernels? No, but it would not be hard to back-port. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org