Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 21:12:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), karsten@rohrbach.de (Karsten W. Rohrbach), andre@akademie3000.de (Andre Albsmeier), intmktg@CAM.ORG (Marc Tardif), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <200010022112.OAA10784@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001002105342.A8937@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Oct 02, 2000 10:53:42 AM
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 23:59:06 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 2:48:53 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> I strongly object to the Microsoft "partition" table, and I don't use > >> it myself. And of course you're welcome to use whatever you find > >> convenient. It's not until you advocate making this a standard way > >> that anybody can have any objection. > > > > Why? It is only broken in different ways than the BSD label. > > Because it's another layer of abstraction which doesn't add any > functionality. Yes, there are claims that some BIOSes require it, but > that makes the BIOSes broken. Is this semi-misattribution to get even with me for not automatically including attribution, through my use of an older mail client? 8-). I think FreeBSD should work on these systems, even if they have "broken" BIOS'; this is normally done as a virus countermeasure. PS: Your mail server whines about Primenet being a SPAM source; that's just strange... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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