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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 3 available
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.181011.17161@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 18:10:11 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.184606.11361@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Sep5.184606.11361@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
-
- | - I edited the minix fs pretty heavily to remove a couple of race-
- | conditions. The same races still exist in the extended fs, as I
- | didn't have time to edit that yet. The minix-fs took precedence as I
- | know that better, and extfs isn't "official" yet anyway.
-
- Sure would be nice to get this fixed.
-
- | The swap-page handling resulted in a reduction of swap-file (or
- | partition) size to a maximum of 16MB per file. It's nothing inherent to
- | the code, but it eased some algorithms, so I didn't bother coding around
- | it. After all, 16MB is enough for most people, and if you want more,
- | you can have up to 128 swapfiles of 16MB each. If I get enough
- | hate-mail about it, I might just try to find the energy to correct it.
- | Maybe.
-
- Hate mail, no, but I think this should be fixed at some point.
- As long as multiple swap file work those users who need huge swap space
- can have it by creating a /swap (or some such) partition and creating
- multiple swap files within it. It's ugly, but I see no reason why a
- feature used only by a few people should be pretty as long as it works.
- If you couldn't do it at all I'd complain, but I can live with this if
- my image size gets so big it doesn't fit in 16+16 I'll live with a
- little inconvenience. Of course having more memory work would be nice,
- too, but it raises all sorts of problems. Maybe memory >16M could be
- used for swap of some such.
-