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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:33:07 -0700 (MST)
From:      Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011222229510.1193-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001120105948.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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> 
> Why is DD ever _needed_?

mostly, for purely aesthetic reasons.  On the other hand, when you have
source code to your os, why should you do things in ugly ways?  half the
reason any non-for-pay code gets written is to satisfy someone's desire
for neatness, purity, etc...  To lots of people this is the 'right
way'.  This is why I do a lot of the 'recreational' development that I do.

Oh, and perhaps we want to support other architectures besides the broken
one that seesm to require this ugly kludge some times...

Fred

--
Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute 
force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.



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