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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:49:50 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: ccd driver or 2.1R available
Message-ID:  <199601201949.UAA01252@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601200433.UAA10983@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jan 19, 96 08:33:25 pm

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As Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> The swap code does not use the first 64 blocks or some such for that
> very reason.  You can have swap at the front of a disk, though this
> has not always been true (I think it was David Greenman who finally
> fixed it).

I believe it's still broken in some cases for dumping.  There's still
a problem report for this (i've once trashed a disklabel and rendered
a disk unbootable):

[1995/10/26] kern/794      swap partition at offset 0 still broken

-- 
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. ;-)



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