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Command: drum | Section: 4 | Source: UNIX v10 | File: drum.4
DRUM(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual DRUM(4)
NAME
drum - paging device
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.
FILES
BUGS
The indirect driver divides the swap area into interleaved sections of
half a megabyte or so; reads may not span the boundary between sec-
tions. Since the system doesn't allocate blocks across sections, this
probably doesn't matter.
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