From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 9 22:43:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F3737B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBA6hAQ17405; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <20011209224310.A17244@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20011209102129.F97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200112092015.fB9KFJe01121@mass.dis.org> <200112092200.fB9M0J660085@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112092200.fB9M0J660085@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from j@uriah.heep.sax.de on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:00:19PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:00:19PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > - The MBR partition table is not "obsolete", it's a part of the PC > > architecture specification. > > Its design is antique. Or rather: it's missing a design. See other > mail for the reasons. For FreeBSD, it's obsolete since we don't need > to rely on fdisk slices. (Or rather: it's optional. We can make good > use of it when it's there, but we don't need to insist on it being > there.) Jorg, why not just buy an Alpha or Sun Blade and run FreeBSD on it?? You will get the traditional Unix workstation partitioning you so much long for. It really seems your arguments are nothing more than "MBR's are a M$ and IBM PeeCee thing, and I hate anything PeeCee". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message