From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 01:22:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA03713 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:22:23 -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 BAA03689 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:22:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA10484 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:21:45 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10009 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:21:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA19929 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:12:02 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601310912.KAA19929@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:12:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601302200.PAA07560@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 30, 96 03:00:19 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 Terry Lambert wrote: [bad144] > Let me add that if the sparing sectors were moved to the end of the > 'a' slice, it would have two effects: > b) The bad sector area could be grown at the expense of decreasing > the available swap in the 'b' slice following the sparing area. ...but only if the swap space physically follows the boot partition. Nothing mandates this. -- 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. ;-)