From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 25 11:24:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D1B37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DA143E77 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 28086 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 18:24:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Oct 2002 18:24:43 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PIOan5075981; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:24:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200210251535.g9PFZTOD072982@dotar.thuvia.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:24:40 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Valentine Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Oct-2002 Mark Valentine wrote: >> From: Poul-Henning Kamp >> Date: Fri 25 Oct, 2002 >> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis > >> Just how do you intend to use "standard BSD device naming" for a >> scheme which supports up to 16k partitions ? > > By mapping /dev/da0[a-z] onto partitions I will likely use. > > I am not precluding a new naming scheme to cope with new demands, simply > stating that the existing scheme, which caters for 99% per cent of cases, > should be preserved. This is about like asking someone to stick a propeller on the end of an F-22 and expect it to look and act like a Cessna. This is not realistic and is just a hack. We no longer work on Vaxes in the 1980's. Seriously. Trying to fit new paradigms into an old format that really isn't an abstraction but you are trying to turn into some kind of weird abstraction that most people don't actually use just makes no sense from a future perspective. Why would you want to design yourself into a hole that you already know isn't big enough for stuff that exists right now much less things in the future? I'm just amazed that people really think their i386 box uses the same disk layout as some VAX from the 1980's. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message