From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:52:44 -0400
From: philw@plan9.att.com philw@plan9.att.com
Subject: /dev/swap acting weird?
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>If my swap device is not big enough, will swapping still work?
Yes until is tries to page out into non-existant blocks
when the kernel will panic in executeio/swap.c

>>with the size of the swap partition. It is a
>>vector of reference counts used to mangae
>If it is much larger than the size reported by /dev/swap, will the 
>extra swap space be usable?
No. as I said, a reference count per page is required.