From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 14:51:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA05375 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:51:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05347 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA20540 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:50:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA28821 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:50:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id AAA01686 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:49:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603312249.AAA01686@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fdisk and partition info To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:49:29 -4600 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603312106.OAA11874@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 31, 96 02:06:44 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > I believe that Bad144 processing [...] ... > And you will note, I have been arguing long and hard for a devfs > (since early 1994). I've noted. :) > You may have missed this because of the suggested change to the > Bad144 table location to just before the swap area I have made > previously. Nope. I simply didn't care about bad144. Nor do i now. My last ESDI disk has been thrown out of a window more than a year ago. :) This isn't to say that your proposal doesn't have some merit, but it's up to others to implement it. -- 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. ;-)