Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!sco!md From: md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Root/Boot floppy swap-space problems Keywords: Xenix floppy swap Message-ID: <3907@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 27 Nov 89 07:21:02 GMT References: <13318@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@sco.COM Lines: 9 simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) writes: >Question: What is the 'pipe=fd(52)' for? I thought pipe-space was in the > kernel??? No - the inodes and data blocks for pipes are allocated from a particular filesystem device (known to the kernel as "pipedev")