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diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man4/drum.4 b/static/unix-v10/man4/drum.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fda84c9e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man4/drum.4 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +.TH DRUM 4 +.CT 2 sa +.SH NAME +drum \- paging device +.SH DESCRIPTION +This file is the paging and swapping device. +It usually refers to an indirect driver +that allows swapping to be spread over several disk drives. +.SH FILES +.F /dev/drum +.SH BUGS +The indirect driver divides the swap area into interleaved sections +of half a megabyte or so; +reads may not span the boundary between sections. +Since the system doesn't allocate blocks across sections, +this probably doesn't matter. |