Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 22:53:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( Message-ID: <199603142153.WAA01101@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960314093121.4455A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Mar 14, 96 09:36:30 am
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As Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > Is it a problem to have your swap as the first partition? I've always Yes, if it starts right at offset 0 of the disk/BSD slice. > put it there since that's the fastest part of the disk. If this is a > problem, that could explain why I lost our web server yesterday, and why > the SCSI system stopped working when I upgraded to 2.1 (you don't want to > know what kind of day it was, trust me). As i wrote in another mail, swapping has already been fixed for some time (while it's been broken for 10 years or more in BSD), but some sort of core dump is clobbering the disklabel. Bruce once wrote me that it might only affect core dumping where the ``dumps on'' clause is present in the kernel config file, not those that are being turned on with dumpon(8). -- 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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