Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:42:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199601311842.LAA10227@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601310912.KAA19929@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 31, 96 10:12:02 am
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> > 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.
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