From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 22 21:24:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3D437B4C5; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:24:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma024044; Wed, 22 Nov 00 22:24:14 -0700 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id WAA22998; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:24:14 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:42:56 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: Mike Smith Cc: Greg Lehey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200011200955.eAK9tiF11715@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The ability to create disks which do not have a valid slice table will go > away. End of story. Ah -- but if you can extend 'valid' to include a partition that contains the mbr, then dedicated installs are fine, as long as we fix the bogus data in the boot1/mbr Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message