Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/embedded/conf

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20140401184816.GQ20347%snowdrop.l8s.co.uk@localhost>,
David Laight  <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:18:45PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By:        christos
>> Date:                Mon Mar 31 18:18:45 UTC 2014
>> 
>> Modified Files:
>>      src/distrib/utils/embedded/conf: x86.conf
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> remove swap; these days x86 machines don't need it.
>
>What about for dumps?
>
>Although I'm not at all sure what this particular file is for...
>
>From the diff it looks like it needs for TLC in order to get sane
>partition offsets.

The main reason I removed it is because it makes it easier to resize
the ffs to the disk size, if it is the last thing on the disk, and I
did not want to put swap first. But I could put swap back. /etc/rc.d/swap2
complains otherwise, and it should not :-)

christos