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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:25:49 -0400
From:      John LoVerso <John@LoVerso.Southborough.MA.US>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disklabel 101?
Message-ID:  <3AD325FD.34DCA095@LoVerso.Southborough.MA.US>
References:  <20010405111707.A35325@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org><3ACE972D.A13CF44C@babbleon.org> <15054.57979.84674.462609@guru.mired.org> <000001c0bfd9$3b96a230$1201a8c0@sanmik.com>

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> Are there any issues with placing swap first on the hard drive? Unless you
> insist on filling the drive, it seems to me that this swap arrangement would
> result in less stack travel.

Except that the beginning of the hard disk is the fastest area of the drive. 
Normally, you would want to reserve that for your commonly read data and push
the swap area to the end of the disk where I/O will be about half as fast.

John

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