From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 3 available Date: 8 Sep 1992 18:10:11 GMT
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.