Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:01 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131214480.9978-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200212132005.gBDK5vfP018474@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Looks like a bug in Geom.. Apparently it uses signed numbers :-) (also a bug in the kernel becasue the dump should have refused) On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> said: > > > Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it > > wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.) > > Because it starts at the end of the specified partition and works its > way backwards. (The hope is to preserve as much of the existing swap > as possible, under the assumption that swap starts from the > beginning.) > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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