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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:12:02 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:03:22 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> 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.
> 

And who but Terry would care about optimizing something like bad144
anyway ???

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