From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 22 21:14:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7ACC37B4D7 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:14:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma023404; Wed, 22 Nov 00 22:14:27 -0700 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id WAA22123; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:14:25 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:33:07 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Greg Lehey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa , Warner Losh Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message