From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 17: 1:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F05B37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAK0wZ460410; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:28:35 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:28:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120112835.V58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> <20001120110735.R58333@echunga.lemis.com> <200011200048.RAA16419@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011200048.RAA16419@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:48:14PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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