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Date:      Wed, 12 Jul 1995 01:55:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R.
Message-ID:  <199507120855.BAA26784@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <25804.805538301@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 12, 95 01:38:21 am

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> > This comes up over and over again.  In Usenet.  In private mails/talks
> > i'm getting.  I'm not very happy that the slice code broke *many*
> > systems that used to run before with their dedicated disks.  IMHO, we
> > should have an option to disable the slice code in case somebody
> > wishes to use a disk dedicated to FreeBSD (perhaps even a non-bootable
> > disk, so the BIOS braindeadness is in no way a valid reason).  There
> 
> I think that phk doesn't necessarily disagree with any of the above
> sentiments but also he's got rather a lot on his plate at the moment
> and probably just doesn't have time to work the required magic in
> libdisk.

By all means jump on libdisk if you have the time & energy.

I'm out of both.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
whois: [PHK]                | phk@ref.tfs.com       TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?



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