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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:22:27 -0600
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        "Sam Zamarripa" <samz@oz.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dangerously Dedicated 
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20001119175935.00dd56c0@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <008901c05278$b71a6f50$0200000a@sam>
References:  <200011192231.eAJMVIF09854@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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At 02:33 PM 11/19/00 -0800, Sam Zamarripa wrote:
>I have been using DD since I first starting followin stable in the 3.0 days
>with no problems. When and if DD is taken out, do all of us with DD disks be
>required to reformat our drives? This would be a real big
>pain if so. Thanks.

In order to upgrade, yes.

I'd suggest planning before the "big pain" date comes and incorporate a 
change from DD to slices as part of an upgrade.  As for those that cannot 
afford the downtime, consider it inevitable and learn how to do major 
upgrades with minimal service interruption.

Fairly sure I have a few lurking around somewhere.


The ability to create a DD drive should be removed from the install.  That 
should prevent new users from perpetuating DD.  However, the docs also need 
to lose the suggestion that DD is OK:

http://localweb.mountin.net/FBSD-www/handbook/disks-adding.html

Surely there are other places.  Rather surprising that they weren't revised 
after all this time.


Further presume that when 5.0 is released, there will no longer be support 
for DD.  As others mentioned it should be depreciated and soon, so this 
horse can finally be laid to rest.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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