Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 20:39:11 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <5208.823117151@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:39:49 MST." <199601311839.LAA10213@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > > [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 ??? > > Hello... 1024 cylinder limit... hello... old hardware... hello... Exactly. It works with the limitations stipulated. One way to do this on a 1024+ cyl disk is what I did: make one slice which is only for your root & swap (100 Mb ?) make another slice covering the rest of the disk. run bad144 on both. QED: no need to mess with the code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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