Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:39:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Andre Albsmeier <andre@akademie3000.de>, Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <20001003133932.K759@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200010022112.OAA10784@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:12:36PM %2B0000 References: <20001002105342.A8937@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200010022112.OAA10784@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Monday, 2 October 2000 at 21:12:36 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. > > Is this semi-misattribution to get even with me for not > automatically including attribution, through my use of an older mail > client? I see no "semi-misattribution", so I can't telln > I think FreeBSD should work on these systems, even if they have > "broken" BIOS'; Agreed. > this is normally done as a virus countermeasure. I suspect it's done from lack of clue. 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
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