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Date:      Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:16:20 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) 
Message-ID:  <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:10:14 MST." <200112120510.fBC5AEM33040@harmony.village.org> 

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>In message <200112120509.fBC59Qk07926@mass.dis.org> Mike Smith writes:
>: > However, the argument for /usr is more than just that it is for crash
>: > recovery.
>: 
>: It is?  Sounds like there are lots of retconned reasons that could
>: equally easily be worked around. 8)

Has the requirement for the root partition being first in the disklabel
been removed?  I prefer to have my swap partition as close to the front
of the disk as possible to take advantage of the faster tracks.  If /
needs to come before swap, and / is *huge*, swap gets slower.

--
Justin

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