Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:06:44 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> In-Reply-To: <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org> References: <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> <Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:26:20 EST." <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org>
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>>>>> "WL" == Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes: WL> In message <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> "Jeffrey J. Mountin" writes: WL> : Are you saying that da0a is (almost) functionally equivalent to WL> da0s3a if : slice 3 is the first FBSD slice. Thought they were WL> for "dangerously : dedicated" partitions. WL> No. That's not correct. While they are used in dangerously (and WL> stupidly) dedicated mode, they can be used at any time. I still have WL> some mount points on my -current machine that refer to sd1c because WL> I've been too lazy to update them. Why is using /dev/da0a stupid? FreeBSD is the only system I've encountered that totally locks up (during a 3.3-RELEASE install from CD) when there is no fdisk disk label. Is that why it is stupid? BSD/OS and Linux (RedHat 6.1) both deal with the lack of an fdisk disk label just fine, and BSD/OS doesn't even require one, letting you use the direct unix partitioning scheme. I much prefer it that way as it just makes sense on a dedicated box, which is what all of mine are. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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