From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:23:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3426137B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA17766; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:23:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-99.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.99) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma017764; Sun Nov 19 18:23:00 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20001119175935.00dd56c0@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:22:27 -0600 To: "Sam Zamarripa" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <008901c05278$b71a6f50$0200000a@sam> References: <200011192231.eAJMVIF09854@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message