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Date:      Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:12:53 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NBQ: Why partitioning? (was: Re: Partitioning suggestions?)
Message-ID:  <19971122111253.HK34127@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19971121002001.09565@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Nov 21, 1997 00:20:01 %2B0100
References:  <199711180019.TAA01983@dyson.iquest.net> <199711180202.VAA04479@luomat.peak.org> <19971117192532.37475@micron.mini.net> <19971119193141.NY02422@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19971121002001.09565@keltia.freenix.fr>

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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

> > I wished we would support 16 partition slots at least as an
> > alternative to the backwards-compatible 8 slot model.
> 
> Why not using a second FreeBSD slice ?

I happen to hate slices, ya know? :-)  I wanna be able to use my disk
on any potential controller, disregarding any geometry hassles.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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