On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Karel Zak wrote: > > I have talked about it with Ted few weeks a ago. I have asked you, > because it seems that you care about Linux swap area and all > feedbacks are welcomed ;-) Anyway, I'm going to send the patch that > zap the bootbits also to linux-fsdevel. We will see... Great, please Cc me on that, I'll be interested in the response. I've just tried searching for SWAPSPACE2 in the linux-kernel archive at marc.info, and see there's a couple of "large swap areas" threads from February and March 1998 which show where that header comes from, and the sparc case is mentioned there; but I've not gone through and digested it all. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html