From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (tfb@tfeb.org) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:05:06 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] /dev/drum In-Reply-To: References: <8225C5DB-27BD-464E-930A-522C30C20EBD@tfeb.org> <25A1FED0-4F8B-408F-B27B-5728C649D8BE@collantes.us> <7wfu3nuqeb.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <3A18DFEC-42B7-4234-9DD1-367733270D50@tfeb.org> <0abe01d3db28$b6573660$2305a320$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <183C2A87-9813-4C86-9F22-8E2B9D689162@tfeb.org> On 24 Apr 2018, at 00:45, Arthur Krewat wrote: > > Wow, I was going to refute this, as I don't ever remember seeing any Solaris box do this. However, a Solaris 8 x86 vanilla install on VMware I did recently does indeed have swap on the first cylinders (see below). A Solaris 7 x86 install does not exhibit this behavior. Now I'm wondering if Solaris 9 does it. A Solaris 10 box I have access to has swap after root, not before. It makes sense that it was 8. We hardly used 9 so I don't know what it did, but I suspect by 10 someone had had very strong words with whoever thought it was a good idea after some large customer had had an only-technically-their-fault outage because of it and been fierce at Sun. It was really stupidly dumb, I thought: solving a problem no-one had any more by the wrong method (if paging *was* a problem a better solution is to add a second slice on another physical disk as swap). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: