Q: What are the frontporch (fp) and the backporch (bp) shown in disktab?

A: The front and back porches are for "non-file-system stuff."  The front porch has:

·	the disk label
·	two copies of the boot program

The backporch is currently unused by the SCSI hard disk driver.

QA435

Valid for 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1