From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 20 06:52:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA28333 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 06:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA28328 Sat, 20 Jan 1996 06:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA11387; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:51:52 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA00324; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:51:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA06747; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:51:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601200951.KAA06747@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ccd driver or 2.1R available To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:51:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: stable@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU, hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, ccd@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601191924.NAA24673@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 19, 96 01:24:40 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > > > Oh sure. One of them is "don't use a partition that starts at a > > beginning of the slice". > I may be wrong, but isn't this because the standard disklabel leaves some > space for the BIOS partition table, just in case it's the first slice on the > disk? No, the standard disklabel leaves some space for the disklabel. :) There used to be a problem with swapping all over the disklabel in earlier BSDs (including its derivatives like Illtrix), but this has been solved since. The only problem by now is (dunno whether it's already fixed) that if you configure your kernel with ``dumps on xxx0'', it will dump over the disklabel if the swap partition starts at offset 0. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)