Subject: Re: kernel vs boot-program
To: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/14/1994 13:48:15
> I'd like to see any prior knowledge of swap removed and done via swapon. I've
> never quite understood the need for config having to compile all potential
> swap devices in.

This is necessary because of the way swap device interleaving is done.

in my posession is an extension to the swapping code, which does
non-interleaved swapping for certain devices, e.g. 'vnode' devices,
but they still need to be specified at config time.


what's the current method of doing NFS swap?


cgd

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