In article <20140401184816.gq20...@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight <da...@l8s.co.uk> 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
