Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:39:43 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), peter@netplex.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <199811111739.KAA17419@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199811110756.SAA04980@cimlogic.com.au> References: <9326.910765040@zippy.cdrom.com> <199811110756.SAA04980@cimlogic.com.au>
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> I've read Peter's concerns about systems that were disklabelled ages > ago, but I question the length of time we are expected to support disk > allocations from the past. Let's move forward... Umm, this issue isn't 'disklabellede disks from the past', it was 'size of the / partition'. The smaller the root partition, the less likely you'll corrupt it and the less more quickly you can fsck the darn thing at boot time and get on with fixing crashes when they happen. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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