Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!encore!xenna!loverso
From: loverso@xenna.Encore.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A few problems with BSD
Message-ID: <3825@encore.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 19:17:30 GMT
References: <10194@eddie.MIT.EDU>
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Reply-To: loverso@xenna.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <10194@eddie.MIT.EDU> nessus@athena.mit.edu (Doug Alan) writes:
> The following are a few problems I've had with 4.3BSD on a uVax II...
>
>    (1) If you accidentally attempt to boot a system on a disk drive
>        for which there is no partition table in the kernal, BSD kindly
>        trashes the filesystem for you.

In the recent "4.3-Tahoe" release, BSD now will store disk partition
information on the pack itself, thus completely preventing this type
of problem.

> Is swap space also supposed to begin a cylinder boundary, or does
> it make no difference?

It makes no difference, but you'll make better use of your space by
using whole cylinders.

John R LoVerso
Encore Computer Corp
encore!loverso, loverso@multimax.arpa, [full moon only: loverso@encore.com]