DRUM(4) 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 sections. Since the system doesn't
allocate blocks across sections, this probably doesn't
matter.