Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:38:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <200011192138.eAJLcwF09621@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:32:16 EST." <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu>
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> So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run
> FreeBSD? I don't like this idea.
Please don't resuscitate this argument *again*. They're not "MS-style
partitions"; the MBR slice table is mandated by the PC platform
specification and there's simply nothing you can do about that.
You might as well bitch that we call the "MS-style BIOS", or use
"MS-style ACPI information", or "read the MS-style SMAP memory layout
data" or "run on the MS-style x86 processors".
This is how the platform works. Deal with it.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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