From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Oct 1 18:24:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3962737B502; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e921Ngh09168; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:53:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:53:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans Cc: Terry Lambert , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Andre Albsmeier , Marc Tardif , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <20001002105342.A8937@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001001131126.L43885@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:59:06PM +1100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 23:59:06 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 2:48:53 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I strongly object to the Microsoft "partition" table, and I don't use >> it myself. And of course you're welcome to use whatever you find >> convenient. It's not until you advocate making this a standard way >> that anybody can have any objection. > > Why? It is only broken in different ways than the BSD label. Because it's another layer of abstraction which doesn't add any functionality. Yes, there are claims that some BIOSes require it, but that makes the BIOSes broken. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message