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847675Scael.Dd
947675Scael.Dt DRUM 4
1047675Scael.Os BSD 4
1147675Scael.Sh NAME
1247675Scael.Nm drum
1347675Scael.Nd paging device
1447675Scael.Sh DESCRIPTION
1520653SmckusickThis file refers to the paging device in use by the system.
1620653SmckusickThis may actually be a subdevice of one of the disk drivers, but in
1720653Smckusicka system with paging interleaved across multiple disk drives
1820653Smckusickit provides an indirect driver for the multiple drives.
1947675Scael.Sh FILES
2047675Scael.Bl -tag -width /dev/drum
2147675Scael.It Pa /dev/drum
2247675Scael.El
2347675Scael.Sh HISTORY
2447675ScaelThe
2547675Scael.Nm
2647675Scaelspecial file appeared in
2747675Scael.Bx 3.0 .
2847675Scael.Sh BUGS
2920653SmckusickReads from the drum are not allowed across the interleaving boundaries.
3047675ScaelSince these only occur every .5Mbytes
3120653Smckusickor so,
3220653Smckusickand since the system never allocates blocks across the boundary,
3320653Smckusickthis is usually not a problem.
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