From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 10:51:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA28815 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA28810 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:51:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA10227; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:42:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601311842.LAA10227@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:42:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601310912.KAA19929@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 31, 96 10:12:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. The kernel's automounting of swap slices "mandates" this. The default installation tools "mandate" this. We can take a survey and see how many of us have swap on slice 'b', but since that is where the install tools put it, it's probably 99.9% of us -- just like having "/" on slice 'a'. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.