From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 14:29:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA02420 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:29:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from tibet.stepnet.com (tibet.stepnet.com [206.14.120.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA02412 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ping@localhost) by tibet.stepnet.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA11974; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:26:56 -0800 (PST) From: Ping Mai Message-Id: <199701182226.OAA11974@tibet.stepnet.com> Subject: Re: FAQ Section 2.15... To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:26:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, terry@lambert.org, peter@hw.nl, ping@stepnet.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701171811.LAA08771@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 17, 97 11:11:42 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Note that the whole partition doesn't have to be under 1G, only: > > ``slice'' > > > > > > o the disklabel > > > o the a slice > > ``partition'', Terry! > > > > Please avoid confusing other users with your non-FreeBSD terminology. > > This is actually DOS terminology... the only terminology these people > are likely to be familiar with, considering that they can't understand > how to install the system to get familiar with the new terminology. > > > If SVR4 decided to leave the Unix tradition and named what used to be > > called a partition a slice later, that's their problem. FreeBSD has a > > commonly stated terminology, so use this one when talking about > > FreeBSD. > > I was talking to a DOS person. > > BTW: you may not have noticed, but DOS users outnumber BSD users by a > large proportion... > > The terminology should be irrelevent anyway. > > When is devfs going to be the default so I can work on deltas to it > to make the terminology irrelevent? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Thanks to everyone who reminded me the 1G limitation. Sorry Terry, I don't consider myself a "DOS person". ------------------------------------------------------------ Steps Network Solutions, Inc. Ping Mai 56 Allison Street ping@stepnet.com San Francisco, CA 94112-3702 Voice: 415.860.0386 U.S.A. FAX: 415.333.4381 ------------------------------------------------------------ Work keeps away three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire