Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <20011209224310.A17244@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200112092200.fB9M0J660085@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from j@uriah.heep.sax.de on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:00:19PM %2B0100 References: <20011209102129.F97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200112092015.fB9KFJe01121@mass.dis.org> <200112092200.fB9M0J660085@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:00:19PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > - The MBR partition table is not "obsolete", it's a part of the PC > > architecture specification. > > Its design is antique. Or rather: it's missing a design. See other > mail for the reasons. For FreeBSD, it's obsolete since we don't need > to rely on fdisk slices. (Or rather: it's optional. We can make good > use of it when it's there, but we don't need to insist on it being > there.) Jorg, why not just buy an Alpha or Sun Blade and run FreeBSD on it?? You will get the traditional Unix workstation partitioning you so much long for. It really seems your arguments are nothing more than "MBR's are a M$ and IBM PeeCee thing, and I hate anything PeeCee". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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