From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 17: 4:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1530E37B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:04:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19652; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:34:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:34:24 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: Sam Zamarripa , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > OK, the more this thread continues, the more it's looking as if we're > talking about different things. I don't have (much) of an objection > to removing it from sysinstall. If that's all we're talking about, I > don't have any further objections. But I still want to have the > facility in the system. I would prefer it died, but I'm not doing the work ;) > I wonder how long the current Microsoft partition table has to live, > anyway? Sooner or later people are going to have to move to LBA > addressing, or disks will get so big that the partition table can't > address them. Then, hopefully, we'll be able to use a more sane > layout. Hah! You have too much faith in PC designers. It will be another hack of course. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message