Subject: Re: configure system swap
To: Mark Levine <mlevine@bbn.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/30/1997 20:57:26
Mark Levine writes:
> The man page for config(8) and the source don't seem to have much
> in the way of notes about changes from the version documented in
> the smm.

The man page for config(8) is utterly and totally obsolete.

A rewrite is heartily solicited...

> The grammar for "config netbsd swap on sd0b and sd1b" for example,
> seems to have been removed.  How does NetBSD/Alpha handle
> configuring swap devices?

We no longer do things that way. We've switched away from hardcoded
kernel swap partitions and into a new and pretty cool system. See
swapctl(8) for some details...

Perry