> I like the idea, but on things like a ccd, if I understand it, it
> (the ccd) already had to be skipping the boot area, no?

Hence I guess the hand off to the driver. The ccd driver would intercept
the ioctl and DTRT (like ignore it). ? I hope ?

> I think this idea is good for more than just swap; filesystems
> on the a partition could be told exactly how much to skip too
> (a question for fs creation).

Agreed. Then there would be no magic incantations to remember on a per
port, per disk type, per usage basis.

ccd's confuse me, and if they also did this ioctl when join disks
together, then no problem with joinging the 'c' partitions :)

Regards,
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