Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:32:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap always use at least 64KB ? Message-ID: <199504051532.IAA08556@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504051101.EAA00175@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 5, 95 04:01:43 am
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> >Similar snooping is required for protecting the MBR and secondary BR's. > > There were two manifestations. It would either destroy your label (I think > this was in the SCSI case) or it would get EROFS when the swap pager tried to > page something out to it. I think the 'destroy your label' problem was fixed > awhile ago. Now the pager just fails with the EROFS. ...Anyway, the first > chunk can't be used. And I can actually think of a couple of usefull uses for that chunk of data. Extending the message-buffer comes to mind... -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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