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DRUM(4)  —  Unix Programmer’s Manual

NAME

drum − paging device

SYNOPSIS

This file refers to the paging device in use by the system.  This may actually be a subdevice of one of the disk drivers, but in a system with paging spread across multiple disk drives or interleaved will be an indirect driver. 

FILES

/dev/drum

SEE ALSO

“Data Structures added in the Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX System” by O. Babaoglu and W. Joy

BUGS

3rd Berkeley Distribution

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