Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:34:24 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@echunga.lemis.com> Cc: Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <XFMail.001120113424.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001120112719.U58333@echunga.lemis.com>
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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
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