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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