From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 17: 1:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD93637B65E for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAK0vJX60381; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:27:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:27:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:50:48PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 17:50:48 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message "Daniel O'Connor" writes: >> At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get >> stuck with it. > > I strongly support this. It has burned me on several machines. > > I don't think that anyone will remove it from the kernel... OK, the more this thread continues, the more it's looking as if we're talking about different things. I don't have (much) of an objection to removing it from sysinstall. If that's all we're talking about, I don't have any further objections. But I still want to have the facility in the system. I wonder how long the current Microsoft partition table has to live, anyway? Sooner or later people are going to have to move to LBA addressing, or disks will get so big that the partition table can't address them. Then, hopefully, we'll be able to use a more sane layout. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message