From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:48:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA4437B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:48:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAK0mEQ20314; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:48:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA16419; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:48:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011200048.RAA16419@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:07:35 +1030." <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:48:14 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : They waste space. In most cases, they're not needed. Isn't that : enough? No. Writing in 'C' isn't necesary and wastes space. That, in and of itself, isn't a reason to not use it. But like mike said, it was the ability to create these for the boot disk that is going away from sysinstall. It causes too many problems on too many machines. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message