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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!physiol.su.OZ.AU!john From: john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] VM problem Message-ID: <1994Jul8.014548.13045@physiol.su.OZ.AU> Organization: The Land of Summer's Twilight References: <CsHBBE.4u4@pts.mot.com> <BLYMN.94Jul7131347@mallee.awadi.com.au> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 01:45:48 GMT Lines: 28 In article <BLYMN.94Jul7131347@mallee.awadi.com.au>, blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: > It seems that there is a bizarre off-by-one error when you add swap > on a second disk. [...] As far as I could see when I was > looking at the problem the swap code uses one more cylinder than the > disklabel specifies - [...] AAAAAAAARGH! Do you mean it _overwrites_ the cylinder one past the end of the second swap partition? AAAAAARGGHHHHHHH! I was just about to reconfigure my system with swap partitions on each drive -- if this is true I will certainly change my thinking and have just one big one. Can someone please comment on this? Is it really true? Is anyone using multiple swaps and having it work correctly? (I'm a bit terrified by this, since I'll never forget the time I configured an Ultrix 4.2 DECstation to take its crash dump on the second swap partition and ended up with the dump right in the middle of one of the filesystems...) -- John Mackin <john@physiol.su.oz.au> Knox's box is a 286. Fox in Socks does hacks and tricks Knox's box is hard to fix. To fix poor Knox's box for kicks.