From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 15:23:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA05388 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:23:52 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA05380 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 15:23:48 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA17301; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:21:36 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA06037; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:21:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA04892; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:09:08 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508302109.XAA04892@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /etc/disktab and stuff To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:09:08 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jdl@chrome.onramp.net Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508301951.FAA19689@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 31, 95 05:51:22 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 496 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >Does it make sense to attempt to collect people's /etc/disktab entries > >and make them more available in the (next) released /etc/disktab? > > No. You would need a hundred entries for each of a few hundred disks > to get a reasonable coverage. Seconded, especially since /etc/disktab is actually /etc/disk&partitiontab. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)