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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 
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Looks like a bug in Geom.. Apparently it uses signed numbers  :-)
(also a bug in the kernel becasue the dump should have refused)

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> said:
> 
> > Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it
> > wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.)
> 
> Because it starts at the end of the specified partition and works its
> way backwards.  (The hope is to preserve as much of the existing swap
> as possible, under the assumption that swap starts from the
> beginning.)
> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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