Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 01:48:27 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: swap always use at least 64KB ? Message-ID: <199504051548.BAA24115@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > The first swap block is always pre-allocated. This was done to work around >> >a problem with people putting their swap partition at the beginning of their >> >disk (the system would happily try to destroy the label). I suppose it would >> ... >> The diskslice "driver" snoops on writes to label sector(s) and rejects >> writing of invalid labels even when write protection is off. >Sure, but then you would crash with a "swap pager write error" instead... FITNR (Reboot). The fix will be obvious because the slice driver prints verbose error messages :-). Actually, they are less verbose in this case. Bruce
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