From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:06:59 -0400
From: philw@plan9.att.com philw@plan9.att.com
Subject: /dev/swap acting weird?
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the swap number in /dev/swap has nothing to do
with the size of the swap partition. It is a
vector of reference counts used to mangae
page sharing on the disc. It is set by conf.nswap
and is allocated by swapinit/swap.c at boot time.
the number is reported so you can ensure the
device used to swap onto is big enough.