From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 20 11:33:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles514.castles.com [208.214.165.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751F114C17 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06064; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906201830.LAA06064@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: attila@hun.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:51:02 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:30:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct > attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I > worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop.... however, > that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large > partitions take performance hits. Has nothing to do with Microsoft. Has everything to do with correct disk layout. Must use slice entries for system disks likely to be shared with other operating systems. Should use "truly dedicated" disk layout for non-shared disks. Defect in libdisk prevents this. Fix libdisk. Become hero. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message