Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:28:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120112835.V58333@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011200048.RAA16419@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:48:14PM -0700 References: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> <XFMail.001120110614.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> <200011200048.RAA16419@harmony.village.org>
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On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 17:48:14 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. No. Unlike the Microsoft partition tables in dedicated machines, it has advantages that make up for it. But take away my ability to write in assembler and I'll complain too. > But like mike said, it was the ability to create these for the boot > disk that is going away from sysinstall. Not for other disks? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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