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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Help with swapon(8)
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 15 Mar 89 21:07:44 GMT
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 > What happens is that the kernel builds a table of swap devices at compile
 > time. When the system is booted, it reads the geometry of these devices
 > and fills in the block counts. You can't add devies to the generic swap
 > kernel because it hits the end of the device table.

"Fixed in 4.0."  No such table exists in 4.0.