Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:27:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705151527.LAA09962@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0wRrY8-0000CN-00@rover.village.org> References: <199705150024.UAA01463@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199705141522.LAA31644@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199705140110.VAA31030@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <11626.863576303@time.cdrom.com> <E0wRjz7-0007TB-00@rover.village.org> <E0wRrY8-0000CN-00@rover.village.org>
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Warner Losh writes: > : Another rather important issue that needs to be hashed out is what sort > : of disk-layout to support. Are you going to be using NT/Linux style > : fdisk slices, or are you going to be using the entire disk like NetBSD > : & Digital UNIX do? Or both? (sorry if this has already been decided, I > : just joined the list yesterday & haven't been able to get an archive > : yet ;) > > I was leaning toward a slices thing (optional) and a disk label, just > like the current FreeBSD does. It is required for the ARC console for > booting that we have a FAT file system around, and so we gotta support > that at some point. Besides, the code is basically already > written. :-) Good.. I was hoping somebody would say that. That seems to be the most flexible approach. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590
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