Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 06:56:10 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap always use at least 64KB ? Message-ID: <199504051356.GAA00192@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 95 08:52:56 CDT." <m0rwVVw-00030oC@obiwan.pmr.com>
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>> 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. > >Would this explain these errors (the EROFS on SCSI) on my 1.1.5.1 >system? Yes, that's what is causing them. > If so, are they harmful? Not fatal...but not at all desired. It might lead to the death of the process with a segfault at a later time. > I have been getting them for some >time (since I added the disk with the swap partition starting at >the beginning of the disk :-() but haven't been able to attribute >any other problems to them. I highly recommend changing the disk label on the drive to have the swap partition start at cylinder 1 rather than cylinder 0. -DG
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