From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:29:20 -0400
From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@stealth.ecf.toronto.edu
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.

If my swap device is not big enough, will swapping still work?
If it is much larger than the size reported by /dev/swap, will the 
extra swap space be usable?