Subject: Re: README: changes to config, to support dump device configuration
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 06/14/1997 18:42:19
Jason Thorpe writes:
>..take a look at the code, and you'll find the following, in
>various ports' cpu_dumpconf()s...
[code snippets showing dump code checking swap partition size]
>I.e. it's not a problem.
>
>The disk driver is the appropriate place to check the partition type,
>since it has the label first-hand.
OK, that's fine. I had taken your comment below at face value:
On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 16:53:55 -0700,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote
[snip]
>Swap is now totally unrelated to dumps.
which refers only to the _configuration_ of swap and dump, I guess?