From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 20 11:51:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15674 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:51:42 -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 LAA15666 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA16911 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:51:31 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA02897 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:51:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id UAA01252 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:49:51 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601201949.UAA01252@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ccd driver or 2.1R available To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:49:50 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601200433.UAA10983@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jan 19, 96 08:33:25 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 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. ;-)