Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:02:08 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <20091210150207.GC826@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091210030816.152b05c9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20091209002231.EB7D01065741@hub.freebsd.org> <675083.74248.qm@web65510.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20091210012256.7d2e8240@gumby.homeunix.com> <4B204FDD.3070005@lazlarlyricon.com> <20091210030816.152b05c9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:08:16AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:33:17 +0100, Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote: > > As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it > > may cause other systems not to recognise the disk. > > Primarily, it's called "dedicated" (only) because it describes > a setting where a whole hard disk is dedicated to the FreeBSD > operating system. The addition "dangerously" seems to describe > the danger that other operating systems cannot handle such a > disk layout, or may cause problems to them - but I don't know > this for sure because I'm not a "multi-booter". :-) It is dangerous because other systems cannot talk to it. It is dedicated because only FreeBSD can talk to it. It is a somewhat redundant term but it sounds good and important. ////jerry
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