Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:44:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Message-ID: <19970422084412.TC53852@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704212115.OAA23175@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 21, 1997 14:15:22 -0700 References: <19970421203928.LG60164@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199704212115.OAA23175@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > You don't need a minor number for it at all, *if* you reexport devices > based on the fan-out from a DOS partition table. What do you do for a drive that has no DOS partition table (e.g. a new one)? You've got a chicken-and-egg problem, and that's what this minor number is for. No, thanks. I avoid this crap (fdisk tables) whenever i can. I have no need for it. The current scheme at least works. 8 partitions aren't much, but if somebody's gonna change something at all, he should consider writing a logical volume manager anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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