DRUM(4)                 COMMAND REFERENCE                 DRUM(4)



NAME
     drum - paging pseudo-device

DESCRIPTION
     Drum is a special file which provides access to all paging
     space available to UTek in the same manner that UTek
     accesses it.  It is only useful to special programs that are
     dealing with block numbers relative to /dev/drum.

     When there is only one possible paging device, this device
     is equivalent to that disk partition.  When more than one
     device can potentially support paging, drum provides access
     to all available space with exactly the same interleave
     mechanism used for actual paging.

     The kernel controls allocation of paging space with internal
     tables; this information is not available outside the
     kernel, so the special users of drum must obtain pointers by
     various mystical means.

FILES
     /dev/drum                standard name of paging device

SEE ALSO
     diskpart(5).






























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