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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